Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

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.

The future is just a projection of the past.

Nothing is more honorable than a man or woman with a good reputation.

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good.

I have to take care of myself because if you get sick, you still have to work. Im not much a party animal, anyway. I lay low.

When you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have "morality!" You have inborn, natural ethics, because it is built on Love.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be.

I like when I use music in film that it isn't just gilding the lily and it isn't telling you how to feel. It's giving you something, some other information that you cannot otherwise get in the scene.

Artists are the people for whom the world is not enough.

God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression