“She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.”

“Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?”

“Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.”

“There," she said. She rocked him back and forth. "There, you foolish, beautiful boy who wants to change the world. There, there. And who could keep from loving you? Who could keep from loving a boy so brave and true?”

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

“You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she's not deadly. She's beautiful and she's laughing.”

“She curled up and pressed her cheek against his chest. Her ear was right above his heart. She was listening to his thoughts. "I need to know this," Aomame said. "That we're in the same world, seeing the same things.”

“In her heart she longed for this man, dreamed of a life that could never be.”

“A woman's job is to lead a man back to his heart and a man's job is to protect her so she can do that.”

“There wasn't a woman alive who could resist a man who paid attention to her, who made her feel like she was the only other person in his world.”