The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

We must put effort and energy into anything we wish to change.

"I am already married," she remarks to the empty air, twisting the ring on her right hand that covers an sold, distinctive scar.

I like to call it nighttime brain: the way your mind seems to function on a different frequency than it does during daylight hours - which can be good or bad but also can lead to unexpected epiphanies or experiences that wouldn't be the same at any other time of day.

This is not magic. This is the way the world is, only very few people take the time to stop and note it.

Better to have a single perfect diamond than a sack of flawed stones.

But dreams have ways of turning into nightmares.