The past is obdurate. It doesn't want to change.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Nothing matches a Sailor’s kiss coming back home where he belongs.

Pretty woman, I don't believe you, you're not the truth. No one could look as good as you, mercy.

Eulogy. Praise of a person who has either the advantages of wealth and power, or the consideration to be dead.

Vegetarianism is a way of living consciously on the planet.

Dreams have always been my friend, full of information, full of warnings.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

We all are imbued with the love of praise.

MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.

The stupid thing about anger is how people hurt you and then you let them keep hurting you by being angry about how they originally hurt you. It’s a vicious cycle.