Trust is the strongest weapon.

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.

There is no darkness like that of a confined space.

What better place to kill time than a library?

The only thing more exhausting than sleeping on a bad mattress is shopping for a new one.

You make something. You give up expressing and start inventing.

A number of individuals tried to make my homosexuality a topic of debate. I admittedly found that rather upsetting.

Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.

Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.

Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?

Fame, power, and gold, are loved for their own sakes - are worshipped with a blind, habitual idolatry.

Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

As I recognized the beauty of the earth, I knew that my Heavenly Father loved me.