If you study something for one year, all you find out is how many things you don’t know.

And no memory is ever quite as you left it, no matter how carefully you lay it away.

A whole life could change, and change again, in the smallest fraction of forever.

Shared, the pain was double, but only half so crippling. She couldn’t bring herself to wish for the strenght to stand alone.

We were three people who loved and needed one another, and it was as easy, and as hard as that.

But unlike sirens, selkies don’t mean any harm with their songs. They don’t sing to seduce or to kill. Their songs have nothing to do with anyone but themselves. They sing for the simple joy of it, and because of that, I imagine their songs are more beautiful than those of any siren.

When your heart is broken, it’s easier to follow rules.

I do the same with my books... Nothing like a good argument in the margins with someone who’s already said all they have to say on the subject.

Now was a time not to anger, but for survival. I would survive. I knew that was all I could do.

But you’re in Faerie now, Nick, and everyone in this place sees you three for what you are.