There is no darkness like that of a confined space.

Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.

Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.

I wish I had a memory of that first violent shove, the shock of cold air, the sting of oxygen into new lungs. Everyone should remember being born. It doesn't seem fair that we only remember dying.

I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.

Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.

It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.

But there’s no such thing as free. There are only different and more horrible ways to be enslaved.

Ah, love. That’s what the world has lost. There’s no more love, only the illusion of it.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

Trust is the strongest weapon.

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you want to record it.

My book sales make 'real writers' possible.

I had been wrong when I said Liza McCullen wasn't beautiful: when she smiled she was stunning.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

I often wonder if I was destined to be a composer. I think I decided and I followed my star.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

It's a choice that you make and there's consequences. It's something you have to own.

This longing to express and celebrate life is innate and quite beautiful.