Grief heals ... unshed tears fester like a canker in the soul..

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing..

There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing; to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind wor….

We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. ….

We may not have demon fathers dangling offers of infernal power before us, but everyone understands what it means to struggle with temptation or resi….

A little truth seasons a lie like salt..

Sidonie, I know you don't remember it, but you once promised to trust me beyond all reason. And I swear to you that all that I am, all that I possess….

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ine….

This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike..

It's the same questions we ask of our existence, and the answer is always the same. The mystery lies not in the question nor the answer, but in the a….

All knowledge is worth having.

Wars come and go; politics endure..

For this too I learned, that a storyteller's tale may end, but history goes on always. These events, so distant in legend, play a part in shaping the….

That was the problem ... with trusting to the written word ... We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and….

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

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted..

There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme.

Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present..

One must gauge one's trust carefully..

There are those who hold that there is a pattern to all that is said and done in this world, that no thing happens without reason nor out of time. As….

Happiness is the highest form of wisdom..