“Power said to the world,
"You are mine."
The world kept it prisoner on her throne.
Love said to the world, "I am thine."
The world gave it the freedom of her house.”

“He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”

“In Alexander's life there was one thread that could not be broken by death, by distance, by time, by war. Could not be broken. As long as I am in the world, she said with her breath and her body, as long as I am, you are permanent, soldier.”

“I told her the world was full of nice people. I'd have hated to try to prove it to her, but I said it, anyway.”

“Monsters,' her dad said, a tear tracing his cheek. 'I live in a world of monsters.”

“Unbelievable," I said. "First you wanted to hide her away to keep you alive. Now you actually want her out in the world to use her compulsion for your own psycho plans.”

“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”

“For you, in my respect, are all the world.
Then how can it be said I am alone
When all the world is here to look on me?”

“She then gave her a pair of slippers made of glass, the prettiest in the world.”

“Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.”