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

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

His kindness was only meant to make later torments crueler.

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.

You can only be free if I am free.

When people don't do what they want, they don't know what to do.

As we got older, their mischiefs continued to be shrugged off, but mine were not, and I knew from that point that I was measured from a different stick than my brothers.

You see these actresses who have had Botox or something else done, and it takes you out of the film.

People can be unimaginably foolish...and they can be unimaginably grand, at times.

It's like half the campaign of selling a record is trying to convince people that you're an artist. Well, I am an artist. This is what I do.

Neither one of us believe that you can fix the culture from within by just throwing money and people at the system. There has to be a systemic change within the system.

Iran is isolating itself from the rest of the world.

I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.