And then there was the way you cast your gaze, A coldness so chilling that it could cause a fire.

How is the duration of a relationship relative to what those involved in it feel?

Erupting like fiery autumn leaves between silksas skin meets skinflames that lick everythingand consume all there is.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

Grief lets you indulge in it, so that it can feed itself.

Pretension, dear love, does not buy truth into lies, nor alter its course.

What ravaged my mind was the thought.The thought of you.

He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.

Darkness disturbedBy the haunting white moonlightGrey half clouds fail to containThe moon's lust for the night.

I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.

No, I don't miss you... Not in a way that one is missed.But I think of you. Sometimes.In the way that one might think of the summer sunshineOn a winter night...

A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East.

The beagle and the kobold approached, walking out of the dusty distance.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand', meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

My motto in life is 'If you think it, you can do it' and if we all apply that thought we can end hunger the world over.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

Times of luxury do not last long, but pass away very quickly; nothing in this world can be long enjoyed.

You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.

Nothing fails like failure

People did not go jumping from one place to another with nothing in between. It simply did not happen.

Say, it's only a paper moon, / Sailing over a cardboard sea.