Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

I would have done just about anything for him.

I would die rather than live without you. I would die the same way he died. I can't bear you to look at me the way you did. I cannot bear it if you do not love me!" -Claudia.

If I am an angel, paint me with black wings.

The highest truths a person could discover were rooted in the natural world.