"You carry your own truth inside of you.  You are the messenger, and the message."

"If I believe in curses, I have also sometimes believed that you were sent to save me."

As he carried her outside, he thought that she felt lighter than she had that day when he had held her, all warm and pink-cheeked and laughing, in his arms. He would try to remember to ask Father Brandt how much a soul weighed.

"Go home, Sela.  You’re too sweet to be out here with me, and too pretty to last long."

"My father was right!  Name of God!  Teaching a woman to read is like giving her a second bite of the apple!"

"You thought you had found a great knight who also wrote bad poetry.  But that wasn’t true.  I was a miserable excuse for a knight who wrote rather good poetry."

"Son of a serpent!"

"We poetic folk call those tears."

"Sometimes I wish you were an ordinary girl."

"It is not necessary to hate a man in order to love his wife."