If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.

Do you know what punishments I've endured for my crimes, my sins? None. I am proof of the absurdity of men's most treasured abstractions. A just universe wouldn't tolerate my existence.

..because the only kind of love I have to offer is stupid and blind and so deep and powerful that I feel like I'm cracking just to hold it in.

Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness.

If you worry about what everyone is trying to do, you become a spectator and not a player.

Put on some armor. Just remember what's armor and what's you, so when it's time to take it off, you can.

If you looked busy, you could get away with almost anything.

What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.

You don't need to like reality, only be strong enough to face it

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.

Life is empty. Life is worthless. When we take a life, we aren't taking anything of value.- Durzo Blint

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism

My language is the common prostitute that I turn into a virgin.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

Humanity, take a good look at yourself. Inside, you’ve got heaven and earth, and all of creation. You’re a world—everything is hidden in you.

Don't be fooled by my beauty - the light of my face comes from the candle of my spirit.

Angels come in all sizes and shapes and colors, visible and invisible to the physical eye. But always you are changed from having seen one.

The greatest judgment God can send on His people is letting them have their own way.