“Understanding requires words. Some things cannot be reduced to words. There are things that can only be experienced wordlessly.”
“I have no interest in easy friends—easy people. I think I trust them less than the difficult ones, and find them far less compelling, too.”
― Tower of Dawn
― Tower of Dawn
“He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Circe
― Circe
“You will make mistakes. You will make decisions, and sometimes you will regret those choices. Sometimes there won’t be a right choice, just the best of several bad options.”
― Queen of Shadows
― Queen of Shadows
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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