Losing the possibility of something is the exact same thing as losing hope and without hope nothing can survive.

Here then at long last is my darkness. No cry of light, no glimmer, not even the faintest shard of hope to break free across the hold.

Youth always tries to fill the void, an old man learns to live with it.

Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul.

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.

I want something else. I'm not even sure what to call it anymore except I know it feels roomy and it's drenched in sunlight and it's weightless and I know it's not cheap. Probably not even real

Little solace comes to those who grieve when thoughts keep drifting as walls keep shifting and this great blue world of ours seems a house of leaves moments before the wind.

We all create stories to protect ourselves.

Knowledge is hot water on wool. It shrinks time and space.

Who has never killed an hour?

Her smile, I'm sure, burnt Rome to the ground.

Every memory is precious. It is more precious when it is a memory of a baby’s smile.

...I did what most kids do when their world feels destroyed. I tried to care less about what remained...This was untrue, of course.

Every person has the power to change their fate if they are brave enough to fight for what they desire more than anything.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

The tolerant liberal suddenly becomes very intolerant when their official religion is challenged.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress.

Whatever you say, say it with conviction

Literacy is the tool we use as humans to find one another, so it must belong to everyone.