It might not be perfect, but the fundamental stance I adopted with regard to my home was to accept it, problems and all, because it was something I myself had chosen. If it had problems, these were almost certainly problems that had originated within me.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

People with dark souls have nothing but dark dreams. People with really dark souls do nothing but dream.

Knowledge and ability were tools, not things to show off.

In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good.

And her sleep was too long and deep for that:so deep that she left her normal reality behind.

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.