No," he repeated, and this time the word tolled in another voice, a king's voice... whose grief was not for what he did not have, but for what he could not give.

There are honest people in the world, but only because the devil considers their asking prices ridiculous.

Her face was a stranger’s face, which was as it should be. Love each other from the day we are born to the day we die, we are still strangers every minute, and nobody should forget that, even though we have to.

Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name.

They know these mornings well and love them desperately because they cannot last - these people who know that nothing lasts.

It's really not so good to have time. Rush, scramble, desperation, this missed, that left behind, those others too big to fit into such a small space--that's the way life was meant to be. You're supposed to be too late for some things. Don't worry about it.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.