They say it's darkest before the dawn, but it also tend to be quietest, and the quiet lets you hear yourself better.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

I am tired of trying to hold things together that cannot be held.

I have absurdly vivid dreams.

The finest of pleasures are always the unexpected ones.

Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.

People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.

Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black ink.

Tarot is just stories on cards.

Even the air feels different on Halloween, autumn-crisp and bright.

Love is fickle and fleeting," Tsukiko continues. "It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

These are our few live seasons. Let us live them as purely as we can, in the present.

The platform underneath the balloon fell on her as she was trying to escape," she explained. "She was crushed." "I'd have been disappointed too.

People are always looking for me to be a freak, weird.

As an actress, I'm an emotional person.

Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the Washington Post.

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

The deepest feelings always show itself in silence.

Even when I lose faith in myself there is something in me that speaks through and says I am not finished yet.