Shannon Hale, Book of a Thousand Days

"You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky."

"I wonder if everyone who faces death hurts like this. It's as though for the first time I realize how much just being alive makes my body ache. But I don't want that ache to stop."

"Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul."

"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."

"I do like the world quite a lot."

"Careful with the accusations of insanity, oh my lady whose home is a tower with windows of brick, all for the sake of some skinny-ankled, laugh-prone boy of a khan."