I know your soul. Everything else is just an ornament.

Her power was a wrenching thing, starless black and sorrow, but my magic was something more...it was hope.

And in such bliss does devastation grow.

Who wanted to be smiled at by the girl that trailed shadows like pets, conjured snakes and waited for Death, her bridegroom, to steal her from these walls?

I love you, " he murmured into my hair. "You are my night and stars, the fate I would fix myself to in any life.

You know nothing about me." "I know your soul. Everything else is an ornament.

My joy was ghostly, like something not quite realized.

He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.

A memory is a fine legacy to leave behind.

I promised you the moon for your throne and stars to wear in your hair, " said Amar, gesturing inside. "And I always keep my promises.

Father once said the real language of diplomacy was in the space between words.

I am not myself.My thoughts are tangled in words that are not my own.

Much can be accomplished if you seek a heart of wisdom and walk diligently with God each and every day.

My heroes are people like Philip Levine, who is simply like a god to me, as a writer. And he is a very good man, too.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

It's all very well to read about sorrows and imagine yourself living through them heroically, but it's not so nice when you really come to have them, is it?

Hey, you wanna hear my philosophy of life? Do it to him before he does it to you.

When you are gripped by fear in the face of an experience that will take you beyond your comfort zone, you may be at a point of supreme opportunity. You can either break down or break through.

The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.

Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.