The thoughts of all men arise from the darkness. If you are the movement of your soul, and the cause of that movement precedes you, then how could you ever call your thoughts your own? How could you be anything other than a slave to the darkness that comes before?

Though all men be equally frail before the world, the differences between them are terrifying.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

The bondage we are born into is the bondage we cannot see. Verily, freedom is little more than the ignorance of tyranny. Live long enough, and you will see: Men resent not the whip so much as the hand that wields it.

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Faith is the truth of passion. Since no passion is more true than another, faith is the truth of nothing.

To be a student required a peculiar kind of capitulation, a willingness not simply to do as one is told, but to surrendor the movements of one's soul to the unknown complexities of another's. A willingness, not simply to be moved, but to be remade.