The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.

We don't get to chose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.

There's something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are.

There was a choice to be made, and Lena hadn't made it. The songs never lied. At least, they hadn't yet.

Nothin' wrong with havin' a cat in the house. They can see what most people can't, like the folks in the Otherworld when they cross back over - the good ones and the bad. And they get rid a mice.

Stairway to Hell or Yellow Brick Road? Why don't you give your Magic 8 Ball a shake and see if it's ready to play again.

My brain tried to process it while my heart focused on beating.

When you look up/ Do you see the blue sky of what might be / Or the darkness of what will never be? / Do you see me?Kami Garcia/Margaret Stohl

He knew, perhaps better than anyone, that we don't get to choose what is true. We only get to choose what we do about it.

You can only control what you know, what you don’t know, will control YOU!

If we don't think about our death until we die, how can we decide how we want to live?

God's codpiece, you're very kind

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

When the public doesn't want me any longer, I'll quit.

Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine.

I've left the Church - for many reasons that I've written about publicly - but it's still a large part of my identity, and I still have my faith, if not my Church.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

I've always been a mythology lover, and so I took a great deal of inspiration from the tales of various dark gods and popular versions of Hell from the Greeks and the Norse stories.