Secrets have power, and that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them.

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.

...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same.

When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.

I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil of pain that fell across her face most of the day, and all of the night.

An attractive woman becomes beautiful when she's happy and in love.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.

I believe in the Bible. I believe that all good things come from God. I don't believe I'd sing the way I do if God hadn't wanted me to.'

Why do I act like this, agreeing when I really disagree, letting people force me to do things I don't want to do?

What you see as cosmos is a living mind - intelligent space.

People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.