It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others

Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

Spontaneity is the province of youth

To recongnize that the treachery of one member of a house does not taint all born within it

Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.

There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.