What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.

There’s nothing worse than not being wanted

The orb shone bright, but darkness had come to Eden and Carys didn’t know is there was any light that could chase this kind of darkness away.

We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

I've lived a life of unfinished things.

...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth...