“Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.”

“A world of happier men and happier women who are truer to themselves. And this is how to start: We must raise our daughters differently. We must also raise our sons differently.”

“Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.”

“Christopher heard a pair of women gossiping nearby, whispering in disapproving undertones.

"… Ramsey was found flirting in a corner with a woman. They had to drag him away from her."

"Who was it?"

"His own wife."

"Oh, dear.”

“No matter how far apart we are,
don't forget that we're
still under the same sky,
both traveling to the place
we once dreamed of.”

“We couldn't understand because we were too far… and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign… and no memories.”

“Men like women who know how to be subtle.”

“It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.”

“This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.”

“I hate it when they tell us how far we came to be, as if our people's history started with slavery.”