How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really desperation parading as possibility?

Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.

Light coursed through Karou and darkness chased it-burning through her, chilling her, shimmer and shadow, ice and fire, blood and starlight, rushing, roaring, filling her.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.

She knocked and waited, because when the door was opened from within, it had the potential to lead someplace quite different.

Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.

I am one of billions. I am stardust gathered fleetingly into form. I will be ungathered. The stardust will go on to be other things someday and I will be free.

Our work is not to become a better person, but to become present to the perfection we already are.

Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.

Failure is sometimes inevitable, but failing to get back up is what turns a lot of people into failures.

And there can be no end to greed because man, by his very exclusive human nature, is pathologically insatiable.

Being interesting isn't important. But being happy is. As well as being a person you're proud of

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

I enjoy helping people who are vulnerable.

If you look at this election, I feel like Donald Trump was speaking a different language to Hillary Clinton.

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought.