People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night. But safety – like light – is a façade.

People often believed they were safer in the light, thinking monsters only came out at night.

This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you.

The only way to truly be safer, was to accept the dark, to walk in it with eyes wide open, to be a part of it. To keep your enemies close.

I wanted to cry for wanting to cry.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

Holy Spirit, take the Word of truth as we find it in the Scriptures and bring it home to our lives.

I didn't kill innocent people.

Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.

I'm always looking for people to feel connected to me and inspired in their own right.

There are people who are so full of common sense that they haven't the slightest cranny left for their own sense.

Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle.

The greater concerns in China and Taiwan are on the political side, not on the economic side.