“It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.”

“I think I love him, but I also think that you can love people who aren't good for you.”

“Some people think they know who you are, when really they don't.”

“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“I'm the warlock who's here to cure you. Didn't they tell you I was coming?"

"I know who you are, but…" Maia looked dazed. "You look so… so…”

“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

“I think that people who can't believe in fairies aren't worth knowing.”

“Would you not think him an utter fool who wept because he was not alive a thousand years ago? And is he not just as much of a fool who weeps because he will not be alive a thousand years from now? It is all the same; you will not be, and you were not. Neither of these periods of time belongs to you.”

“Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”