“Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.”
― Paradise Lost
― Paradise Lost
“In Light there is Dark, and in Dark there is Light.”
― Beautiful Darkness
― Beautiful Darkness
“Too much of anything could destroy you, Simon thought. Too much darkness could kill, but too much light could blind.”
― City of Lost Souls
― City of Lost Souls
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