I didn't want this dance to end, or Kiggs to let go of my hand. I didn't want him to turn his eyes away, or live any other moment than this one.

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.

I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.

There are two sacred causes in this world, ” he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. “Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.

...emotions fly humans toward art

Let the one who seeks justice be just.

I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Someone should love you. I will bite him if he will not.

Sir James waved a gnarled hand. "They're nothing but feral file clerks, dragons. They used to alphabetize the coins in their hoards.

Do not wait until Christmas to spread a little cheer, people appreciate kindness, all through of the year.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can’t conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do.

Are you a lucky little lady in the City of Light? Or just another lost angel... City of Night?

The sun also shines on the wicked.

Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Ive struggled just as much as anyone else.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes.

Every man's religion is his own, and nobody else's business.

It appears that the English think the Japanese... are fond of opium, and they want to bring it here also.