This is my sin for giving in to my own weaknesses. My heart just couldn't keep up with the gigantic gap between dreams and reality. -Jellal Fernandes

The worst kind of pain is when you're smiling just to stop the tears from falling.

If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.

All I need is the power to be able to protect my comrades. So long as I can have the strength to do that, I don't care if I'm weaker than everyone in the world.

A flower can't choose the place where it blooms, and a child can't choose the parents she's born to

Being alive is sign of strength!

The world doesn't need any more sadness than it's already got.

If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say.

I don't want...to run away by myself... because no matter what...I'd rather be together with everyone.

Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!

I am a warrior in the time of women warriors

Talent is nothing more than a pursued interest.

I like grass, I enjoy it and it suits my game.

After eighty, there are no enemies, only survivors.

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

I like routine. It enables me to improvise.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books.

I think a lot comes from having the experience of doing stand-up comedy. It allows you to figure out the psychology of an audience; what things are funny and not.

The ills of discrimination are still with us. We have to continue the tenacity and vigilance of the 1960s. Racial understanding is not something we find; it's something we create.