Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

People don’t pay much attention to anything unless you give them reason to

I didn't know your identity, but I had an impression of who my opponent was, being surrounded by things you made.

Secrets have power. And that power diminishes when they are shared, so they are best kept and kept well. Sharing secrets, real secrets, important ones, with even one other person, will change them. Writing them down is worse, because who can tell how many eyes might see them inscribed on paper, no matter how careful you might be with it. So it's really best to keep your secrets when you have them, for their own good, as well as yours.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.

Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.

Unusual yet beautiful. Provocative while remaining elegant.