Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.

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.

Like I said, hearts can be tricky things. Sometimes gender doesn't matter when two souls connect.

If I can't talk smart I'll just sit back and listen.

No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

...It's not okay." He spoke jerkily, painfully. "I will hurt you, and I will leave you, and I will cheat on you.

A man should be taller older heavier uglier and hoarser than his wife.

Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

The war was a mirror; it reflected man's every virtue and every vice, and if you looked closely, like an artist at his drawings, it showed up both with unusual clarity.

Love your country and fight for your country. Believe in truth, and that is enough

The most transformative and gentle humility and pride. But they transform in opposite ways.

No matter what it is, if you aren't happy striving for it, you won't be happy achieving it.