The Glass Sentence

That is almost always the way with stories. True to their very core, even when the events and the people in them are different.

Men may irritate women entirely by accident, but I believe they infuriate one another wholly by design.

There can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

To be connected to the world is a constant, difficult labor.

Some things (and people) go elsewhere and soon return. Others go elsewhere and appear to want to stay. In those cases, the only solution for the very determined is to find them: to go elsewhere and bring them back.

She was one part melancholy kindness, two parts mysterious unease.