What men yearn for they often destroy.

And then I understood that she had no idea what she'd done to my family. She thought love and hatred were equal.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

What was a rose but the living proof of desire, the single best evidence of human longing and earthly devotion. but desire could be twisted,after all, and Jealousy was the name of the rose that did well in arid souls.

You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it.