There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.

Let the warriors clamor after gods of blood and thunder; love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel.

Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?

Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

If you thought better of me, you would not be so surprised