You have no idea how dearly I wish you were of my blood. My daughter, granddaughter. Will you allow me to take pride in what you are?"-- Sandre to Catriana

There are no wrong turnings. Only paths we had not known we were meant to walk.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.

A hand fought best when it made a fist.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

When I'm all grown up, come what may, I'll build a boat to carry me away

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

Bright star of Eanna, forgive me the manner of this, but you are the harbor of my soul’s journeying.

[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

Tigana, let my memory ofyou be like a blade in mysoul.

I have been made to realize tonight that there are limits to what I wish to do or see done for any cause.

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

If God gives you something you can do, why in God's name wouldn't you do it?

If a child cannot place implicit confidence in his parent, most assuredly no confidence can be reposed in the child.

...moderate your desire of producing perfection, temper your eagerness to produce faultless performance...and soften your manners towards those who are subordinate to you...

You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.

I can see that cinema seems to be finished. Everybody has a bigger screen at home. I'm assuming eventually you won't need a screen at all - these iPhones will just project.

In any event, it's not exactly a secret to regular readers what my views on the war are

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

Future is about dematerialisation.

I'll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I'm watching. Love, Dimitri