“It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.”

“In that moment, Blue was a little in love with all of them. Their magic. Their quest. Their awfulness and strangeness. Her raven boys.”

“The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.”

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”

“We realize the importance of our voices only when we are silenced.”

“Courage starts with showing up and letting ourselves be seen.”

“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

“Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.”