All my life, I've understood the nature of where I come from, but I never thought it might be wicked until now.

The treachery of demons is nothing compared to the betrayal of an angel.

That was the thing about being bereaved. People were overcome with sympathy. They did things for you without even considering whether or not it was the right thing to do.

People make decisions, and maybe you don't always agree, but those choices are still their own.

Once, my mother told a whole host of angels that she’d rather die than go back to a man she didn’t love.

Tender, " she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.

You asked about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to anywhere but with you.

I'm not about love, but in this moment, I wish that I were.

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

I just want that, the way I feel when you kiss me. Just having it makes all the bad things better.

My father's answer was revenge-has always been revenge-and the outcome was just, but not better. Nothing is fixed.

We're a mess, Kate.

Many of the snarly bad-tempered teachers whom we remember with hatred were really nice people soured by years of anxiety and penny-pinching.

No matter what happens, I'll always say that I've had a wonderful life.

In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy tree, Thy branches ne'er remember Their green felicity.

After all it really is all of humanity that is under threat during a pandemic.

To navigate, you must be brave and you must remember.

If I don't have the books to read, if I don't have the information to study, how can I succeed? That's a lot of the stuff I would focus on if I was elected because I think knowledge is power.

Over my pile of ashes

What to us may seem like a tragedy when it happens eventually can form itself into a gift.