His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Knowing the truth is not always a kindness.

Why is he scared of the dark?"I meant the words for a joke, but Shade nodded seriously. "Like all monsters. Because it reminds him of what he truly is".

Though mountains melt and oceans burn, The gifts of love shall still return.

I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an hour..

I coudn't be kind to him after what he'd done, couldn't be cruel after what I had done

But I can’t . . . I can’t leave anyone to the darkness.

You will honor my mother or I will break this bottle over your head

Study the sky but never love it, ” Father had told Astraia and me a thousand times. “It is our prison and the symbol of our captor.

To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand.

Remember what I used to tel you when you were a little girl? ‘A fool and her money soon part.’ Current-day translation? Stop pissing away your assets at Bloomingdale’s.

Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.

To love others we must first learn to love ourselves.

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Experience precedes understanding.

To have known the best, and to have known it for the best, is success in life.

There is still a lot of hard work that we as a country need to do. They can't look to any one individual, whether it's Barack or it's the next new hope that's going to appear to be that savior.

There is a grand designer behind everything. God's plan for your life, all that happens to you, including your mistakes, your sins, and your hurts.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.