The things that truly define me can’t be lost.

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world.

People experience books so very differently.

Opinions are a useless currency

Words often outlive the people who create them.

Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.

It takes darkness inside of a person to see it in others.

Scars can mark you for greatness.

I love the optimism on the shores of youth, where time hasn't yet eroded faith.

Truth is a broken mirror, but it can still help anyone to see clearly.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

There was a time when I do not understand poetry.

I'm financially ugly.

O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping.

Dating is tricky these days. Everyone plays by different dating rules, so don't assume anything.

Self-denial is a monkish virtue.

To his amazement, he could already hear Henry snoring in the backseat. That guy could fall asleep on a car trip to the mailbox.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.