Are we going to discuss whatever it is you are here to discuss instead of dancing around it?” he asks. “I was never a particularly good dancer.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

But do we know how to make love stay?'I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.

Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

Science explains the how.Philosophy explains the why.Free-thinkers need both.

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.

Saying you love someone is a good thing.

I know my debt of gratitude to the women who went before, I know my responsibility to young women coming forward.

Since I have always been a strong believer in God, I knew that He was with me, and only He could get me through that next step

There's no better way to learn something than to learn it in front of an audience. Your terror drives you.

With few exceptions, one ought always do what one is afraid of.