The Narrator (omniscient)

"The world, as it exists, is not something we should accept as inevitable or unchangeable."

"History is not what happened. History is what is remembered."

"The smaller things in life often carry the greatest weight."

"Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies."

"Beauty can exist even in the darkest circumstances."

"The past has a way of intruding upon the present."

"Words can wound more deeply than any physical blow."

"Secrets are the currency of family survival."

"Innocence, once lost, can never be truly recovered."

"The cost of survival is often borne by the most vulnerable."

"Love and hate are two sides of the same coin."

"Time moves differently for those who suffer."

"Society's rules are designed to protect its own order, not its people."

"The small things we remember define who we become."

"Forgiveness requires an understanding we rarely possess."

"Fear can paralyze us more effectively than any physical restraint."

"Nature operates according to laws that humans cannot truly understand."

"The river knows the secrets we dare not speak."

"Mortality casts its shadow over every moment of joy."

"We are all complicit in our own suffering and that of others."

"The shape of our lives is determined by moments we cannot predict."

"Home is a place we can never truly return to."

"Culture and custom have the power to destroy individuals."

"Dreams are often more real than the waking world."

"Violence begets violence in ways that cannot be controlled."

"The price of transgression is paid by the innocent."

"Love between those society forbids carries its own particular burden."

"Art exists as resistance against the forces that seek to suppress it."

"We construct ourselves through the stories we tell about ourselves."

"The body remembers what the mind wishes to forget."