World-building is my favorite pastime, so with me, I'm always about reining myself in.

The truth is what I make it. I could set this world on fire and call it rain.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

I don't want to lose too much of the mystery by hammering every detail to death.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

I am the shadow of the flame.

Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.

I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I don’t know.And I don’t know how to make it stop.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

I do not fear pain.

Courage is just dreams with shoes on.

O The irony of man, he thinks he's past generation did not repeat the same way of thinking, either intelligently or foolishly.

You're in the mirror, I am your image...

Sad that our finest aspiration, Our freshest dreams and meditations, In swift succession should decay, Like Autumn leaves that rot away.

They'll kill you in a minute rather than deal with truth. It's more convenient because then they can forget about it and rationalize your death.

When pieces of work speak to us in a way that feels as if they were made just for us, those become our private worlds that we return to.

Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.

I started with self gone missing.

Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible, yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns.

The cynicism that you have is not your real soul.