When people first discover beauty, they tend to linger. Even if they don’t at first recognize it for what it is.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Despite how entertaining certain stories were, at the bottom of every item of gossip there was someone getting hurt.

Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.

So let me end with the wish that you find the same kind of happyiness, and laughter, and love, that I have found, and that you have the wisdon to make them last.

The only noise now was the rain, pattering softly with the magnificent indifference of nature for the tangled passions of humans.

Angry men with pointy things sent to secure a foreign city are pretty much alike anywhere. That's what I've heard. So far nothing's convinced me different.