“She no longer believed in talk. It never rescued anything.”

“It wasn't that she didn't believe in love; but she no longer believed in it for herself.”

“She taught me I should never do anything in private I did not want talked about in public, and cautioned me not to talk in my sleep.”

“She hasn't your strength. She's never had any strength. She's never had anything but heart.”

“People never like me and I never like people," she thought. "And I never can talk as the Crawford children could. They were always talking and laughing and making noises.”

“She was one of those who could talk and talk and talk. Gair listened to her harsh voice - "Just like a duck," Ayna described it - and hoped she would lose the argument. But Adara once said Kasta had never lost an argument in her life. She just talked everyone insensible.”

“The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising.”

“He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be.”

“I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions.”

“The true person never talks behind your back. She is correct, spontaneous and simply rare.”