I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

It's immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you.

Hope, love and faith are in the waiting.

I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all.

Chronologically she is twelve, but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

Too many kings can ruin an army

Happiness is a way station between too much and too little.

One self-approving hour whole years outweighs.

Hecate teaches us that the way to the vision that inspires renewal is to be found in moving through the darkness.

It's the ones without scars - those are the people you have to watch out for.

The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?

Many a crown shines spotless now that yet was deeply sullied in the winning.

As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer.

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so.

If others hurt you, let the injury go. This is your test. If you let it go, you will find serenity.