Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

If she possessed any memory whatsoever of the days when she'd been whole, her shattered recollections were scattered across the darkscape of her mind in fragments so minuscule that she could no more easily piece them together than she could gather from the beach all the tiny chips of broken seashells, worn to polished flakes by ages of relentless tides, and reassemble them into their original architectures.

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

...what makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection. BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON Chapter 27 Page 214

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.