You're an artist ... that means you see the world in ways that other people don't. It's your gift, to see the beauty and the horror in ordinary things. It doesn't make you crazy--just different. There's nothing wrong with being different.

You cannot hide your true self forever.

Pain is only what you allow it to be.

One must always be careful of books ... and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

The devil has no power ... except in the dark.

History gets written by the winners.

When you love someone, you don't have a choice.

When you love someone, they become a part of who you are. They're in everything you do. They're in the air you breathe and the water you drink and the blood in your veins. Their touch stays on your skin and their voice stays in your ears and their thoughts stay in your mind. You know their dreams because their nightmares pierce your heart and their good dreams are your dreams too. And you don't think they're perfect, but you know their flaws, the deep-down truth of them, and the shadows of all their secrets, and they don't frighten you away; in fact you love them more for it, because you don't want perfect. You want them.

There is more to life than not dying.

There might not be so much of a difference between the side of Light and the side of Dark as you suppose. After all, without the Dark, there is nothing for the Light to burn away.

Sarcasm is the last refuge of the imaginatively bankrupt.

Miles of ocean, and oh, the vastness of it, shadows and salt, fierce dark water filled with alien emptiness and the monsters that lived there. Imagine falling into that water and knowing it was below you, even as you treaded water, desperately trying to remain on the surface; the terror of the realization of what was under you--miles and miles of nothingness and monsters, blackness stretching away everywhere and the sea floor so far below--would tear your mind apart.

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.

There is nothing ... quite like the moral absolutism of the young. It's easy, as a child, to believe in good and evil, in light and dark.

Beautiful things are so easily broken by the world.

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. Whatever the color, the shape, the design of the shade that conceals it, the flame inside the lamp remains the same. You are that flame.

To love is to destroy, and ... to be loved is to be the one destroyed.

Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all.

That was what you did with family when you'd been worried about them, you grabbed them and held on to them and told them how much they'd pissed you off, and it was okay, because no matter how angry you got, they still belonged to you.

Best lies are based on the truth, at least in part.

Every teenager in the world feels like that, feels broken or out of place, different somehow, royalty mistakenly born into a family of peasants.

A man doesn't have to agree with his government to be a patriot, does he? It takes a true patriot to dissent, to say he loves his country more than he cares for his own place in the social order.

All knowledge hurts.

Reneging on promises made to supernatural creatures was a bad idea.

People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.

The choices we make, make us.

Cleverness that comes to late is hardly cleverness at all.

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do ... you will never learn from your mistakes.

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Certainly it would be wonderful if we all knew exactly who we were. But that knowledge doesn't come from outside, but from inside.

Love isn't moral or immoral ... It just is.

You are young ... the past is nothing to you, not even another country as it is to the old, or a nightmare as it is to the guilty.

You never really hate anyone as much as someone you cared about once.

It's hard to guess what a lunatic will do next.

Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before.

You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.

Goodness--real goodness--has its own sort of cruelty to it.

One must preserve some mystery in one's relationship.... A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.

He wondered if normalcy was something, like vision or silence, you didn't realize was precious until you lost it.

Inanimate objects are harmless indeed ... But one cannot always say the same of the men who use them.

I am a woman. I will use any weapon and all weapons to get what I want.

All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.

The Law is hard, but it is the Law.

Sometimes you must lose everything to gain it again, and the regaining is the sweeter for the pain of loss.

Not everything that's true needs to be said.