She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.

Love is like recognition. It's the moment when you catch sight of someone and you think There is someone I have business with in this life. There is someone I was born to know.

Elend: I kind of lost track of time…Breeze: For two hours?Elend: There were books involved.

Hope makes a gladden heart.

I have always enjoyed my solitude. It gives me time to think and to write.

When you’re always scheming about ways to make money, it’s like a part of you is lost.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

Sometimes I didn't even have enough money to eat. I became so weak from malnourishment that my hair fell out, and I couldn't get out of bed.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

I think sensuality is a part of me. It's not all of me, but it's a part of who I am.

I came to accept in myself a long time ago that I really do like writing articulate sociopaths.