The only good thing about having your back to the wall is that it makes it really easy to choose which way you're going to go.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

There is a primal reassurance in being touched, in knowing that someone else, someone close to you, wants to be touching you. There is a bone-deep security that goes with the brush of a human hand, a silent, reflex-level affirmation that someone is near, that someone cares.

Yeah, they look great, but that isn't a fantasy come true, Harry. That's a wood chipper in Playboy bunny clothing.

...as nervous as a bird in a coal mine.

The One created us all to be free. To learn. To find common cause with others and to grow stronger and wiser. But the ancient enemy perverts that union of strengths. With the enemy, there is no choice, no freedom. They take. They force a joining of all things, until nothing else remains. --Doroga

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.