I want her beyond reason. I need to own, consume, worship, devour. What I've made of her in my mind cannot live in flesh.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

There is no sound more annoying than the chatter of a child, and none more sad than the silence they leave when they are gone.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

The way I’d put it, ” said Makin, “is that Rike can’t make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

Perhaps I just wanted to know what it was that I wanted. Maybe that is all that growing up means.

Kegagalan hanyalah keberhasilan yang tertunda.

Instead of making decisions based on safety, security, or practicality, the Soul wants us to live our lives according to what we find to be most beautiful.

May the New Year bring you ceaseless hope, dreams and wonders.

I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.

If you're lucky, you don't think in a straight line.

The primary limitation in life is our low expectations for ourselves and others. When we expect minimum results, that's usually what we get.

The best aspects of every vampire, with all of their gifts, what makes them really special is just an enhanced version of what they were when they were human.

People of all countries have the right to choose their own social system and road to development in the light of their national conditions and characteristics.

I really fought to make my character not a stereotype. I play a soap star with dyed blonde hair.

This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin.