Innocence has no place alongside immortality.

History is the lie. History's words stain otherwise pristine books, drops of inky poison frosted in sugared deception.

Only the dead remember the truth.

The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.

Inside all of us is a light, but some beacons are darker than others, and some are so dark they never realize they are a form of light at all.

We are meant to love. We are meant to lose. Love is our promise of a bittersweet end, and our desperate, hopeless struggle not to hurt anyone along the way.

What is it like to be so free - so trapped, but so free? What kind of bird sings only when caught? What kind of slave outshines and rises above her master?

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

I don't buy that overused line about a woman's job making her a better mother. The children need more time. Everything in our home needs more time.

Hands on hips, she cast him a narrowed-eye gaze. “Move.”“You’re not leaving.”“And you’re not stopping me.

Fire is often the weapon of choice for the insane.

To point at the moon a finger is needed, but woe to those who take the finger for the moon.

Guidance is everything, you have to accept that somebody is their own person, an individual.

Little by little a person becomes evil, as a water pot is filled by drops of water... Little by little a person becomes good, as a water pot is filled by drops of water.

Scratch a socialist and you find a snob.

Life is a gift of the immortal Gods, but living well is the gift of philosophy.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.