I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature..

Sometimes the truth has difficulty breaching the city walls of our beliefs. A lie, dressed in the correct livery, passes through more easily..

Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all ….

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was..

Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either..

Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with..

I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken..

The world is seldom so simple that it hinges on us alone..

Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no lo….

We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful..

Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing..

The world inside myself is vaster and richer than this paltry plane, peopled with mere galaxies and gods..

That’s the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark, but play boldly and no one will question you. ….

Claude rubs the back of his neck and wrinkles his nose, about to tell me he was never sad. I believe this is called bravado and is not limited to law….

And I realized a wondrous truth: that knowledge could be our treasure, that there were things humankind knew that we did not, that our conquest need ….

However strenuously the world pulls us apart, however long the absence, we are not changed for being dashed upon the rocks. I knew you then, I know y….

My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible..

Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!.

For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math..

I had felt the shot coming; I hadn't realized the bow was loaded with this very quarrel, perfectly calibrated to hit him hardest. What part of me had….

Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach..