She tastes like every dark thought I've ever had.

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

I have no memory of climbing the stairs up to the roof. I don't even know how to get where I am, which is a problem since I'm going to have to get down, ideally in a way that doesn't involve dying.

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be

But I didnt do anything wrong.." Which is stupid of course, things dont happen to people because they deserve them.

There’s a tipping point with lies, a point where you’ve said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

Once someone's hurt you, it's harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesn't stop you from wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse.

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.

... that kind of patriotism which consists in hating all other nations ...

Men achieve a certain greatness unawares when working to another aim.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity the necessity of being the man you are and not another. You are free to be that man but not free to be another.

Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted.

It was lovely, and tempting, to exert power over men and to shine before others, but power also had its perditions and perils.

Everyone becomes a part of history whether they like it or not and whether they know it or not.

There is no devil in the universe except mankind's own inharmonious thoughts & feelings, both individual and enmass.

I came to witness. I stay to fight.