By the Angel, this place is barely better than a penny gaff, ” Gideon said. “Gabriel, don’t look at anything unless I tell you it’s all right.

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.

Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.

No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.

A Mark that spoke of loss was still a Mark, a remembrance. You could not lose something you never had.

I am catastrophically in love with you.

You kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. He had wondered once why love was always phrased in terms of burning. The conflagration in his own veins, now, gave the answer.

One does no question miracles, or complain that they are no constructed perfectly to one's liking.

And the answer is yes. I have loved you. I always have, and I always will.

If I held a revolver to your head, James, and pulled the trigger, would it really matter if I did not know that there were not bullets in the chambers?

The teacher works in accordance with the prospects of his students and the possibility of maintaining the community of Sufis.

Shyness is just egoism out of its depth.

I was an hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink. I was a stranger and ye took me in.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I never boned a honey that I didn't like, I never saw a mile that I couldn't hike. I never had a spliff to make me choke, I never had a pocket that was broke.

Therefore, do not eat meat which will cause terror among people, because it hinders the truth of emancipation; not to eat meat? this is the mark of the wise.

We are not the personalities that our egos are so valiantly defending. Our personalities are simply the result of our current programming.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.