She's forgetting,' Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. 'All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.

- Isobelle Carmody

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

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If human lives be, for their very brevity, sweet, then beast lives are sweeter still...

- Isobelle Carmody

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

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That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.

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Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

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Never trust a mirror,' his mother had told him. 'They never tell the truth unless you make them.

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Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

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The worst predijudice is unknowing. We think we treat others as equals, but, in our deepest heart, we regard ourselves as superior. In part, this is …

- Isobelle Carmody