“When the ancient Romans would conquer a new place or a new people, they would leave the language and the customs in tact they would even let the conquered people rule themselves in most cases, app...”

“Why are you so angry?His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. This isnt angry, I smirked. This is just me. Get used to it.”

“Maybe the moral of the legend is that we are all carved, created, and formed by a master hand. Maybe we are all works of art.”

“...and I shut off my anxious heart and my nervous head as dusk descended into another night, another meaningless merging, another attempt to find myself as I gave myself away.”

“None of us can help where we were scattered, Blue. But none of us has to remain where we were scattered.”

“I had feared that if I opened the floodgates I would drown. But as the waves crashed over me, I was not consumed, I was swept up, washed, my soul blanketed with blessed relief.”

“Why are you so angry?His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. This isnt angry, I smirked. This is just me. Get used to it.”

“Why don’t you focus on where you’re going and less on where you came from?”

“Why are you so angry?”His question surprised me, and I laughed a little. “This isn’t angry,” I smirked. “This is just me. Get used to it.”

“You act like beauty is the only thing that makes us worthy of love.”

“She wondered how it would feel to be beautiful and have it taken away. How much harder would it be than never knowing what it felt like in the first place?”

“True beauty, the kind that doesnt fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the earth that create...”

“I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”

“Future warns us through current symptoms in nature.”

“Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with ...”