Yes I am dark, but my eyes are full of stars.

No one can steal your freedom from you. You can only give it away.

I am made of a thousand ghosts. Only you can shoot me down.

Wise men are not pacifists

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Bright was the summer of 1296. The war which had desolated Scotland was then at an end.

There is a challenge of doing something new. Sometimes you have to suspend whether you believe in yourself doing it and just give yourself over to the idea that they believe in you.

Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

For the first time, I wasn't afraid to be smart, and she often stayed after school to work with me.

If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart.