Mirrors are both truth-speakers and liars.

What I want.” I slid my hands over him until cloth folded between my fingers. “I don’t even know what that is. It feels like too much, but I’ll fall apart if I don’t get it.

If you think that trusting someone – allowing them to help you by performing their own duties honorably – somehow makes you less, then it might be time to reexamine yourself. Start asking why you need to do everything. How can you really be close to someone if you never let them in?” “Forgive.

A queen who wouldn’t take risks for her people wasn’t worthy of being a queen at all.

There’s this truth about mirrors. It’s inescapable. But they can lie, too. They can distort the truth, even hide the truth. They create illusion.

Because they don’t have the weapon. I mistranslated those lines in the book. You are the weapon.

I hugged both of them. Melanie for the friends we’d lost. And James for the hope he still carried.

Wil. Of course. – Tobiah.

Imperfections reveal true beauty.

And sometimes we finally grow wise enough to understand life is a gift that can’t- shouldn’t- last forever.