Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

You will be a great queen when you come back, you know. And someday you'll love me the way you love your wolf.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it’s how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Is that Disney magic of pixie magic?" I kid... "It is life magic".

What we do, our choices, that's what defines us.

The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact.

How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

There's all this stuff that is happening in Edinburgh now, it's a sad attempt to create an Edinburgh society, similar to a London society, a highbrow literature celebrity society.

Show me three variations in the leading handbook on the openings, and I will show you two of those three that are defective.

You have to do your thing no matter what anyone says. It's your life.

Occasionally the impossible happens; this is a truism that accounts for much of what we call good luck; and also, bad.

Life is more or less the same wherever you go, because, wherever you go, there you are.

A state is a perfect body of free men, united together to enjoy common rights and advantages.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.