“THE VOICE: (to BEAUTY) Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.”

“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”

“The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.”

“Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.”

“And a quick glance in the mirror turns out to be a mistake. Oh God, is that my face?”

“Art doesn't always mirror life and life's hard sometimes.”

“You are right not to meet my glance, my lord, for then I see into your heart too clearly. It is a mirror which retains the image which it has reflected.”

“A need for revenge can burn long and hot. Especially if every glance in a mirror reinforces it.”

“If Victor was frightened by Dimitri's threat, he didn't show it. His jade green eyes glanced between the two of us. "You two are a match made in heaven. Or somewhere.”

“The so-called "peace" is an interval between wars.”