“How can I know for sure if it's my son speaking and not you?""You never can, my lord. Just as no man can ever be sure that he alone is a thinking and feeling creature and everyone else a machine th...”

“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while ther...”

“...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy and adoration there was the sound there too of anger and resentment. She would not look at him bec...”

“...the older I get, the more I believe that if love is to be judged by most of its visible effects, it looks more like hatred than friendship.”

“... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest nightamidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest ...”

“Better a live dog than a dead lion.”

“Many things have broken him. He holds himself together with spit and endless smiling, but all can see the cracks. You, though; you are dented, bruised, but intact.”

“And the sculptors will shape the soil for the writers to stretch the seedsfor the patient painters who sketch the petals they will shade in alabaster and gold. Their sweat is the rain. Maybe the ja...”

“That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us”

“Once I was free in the shackles of sin:Free to be tempted, just bound to give in;Free to be captive to any desire;Free to eternally burn in hells fire.Til Someone bought me and called me His slave:...”

“Good, if you were not part Lycanthrope that blow would have killed you. Now, stop fighting your pain and embrace it.”

“Dreams are ideas where the collar has been removed and the leash has been thrown away.”