I am more than my scars.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can’t abide the fire shall go through water.

Didn’t anyone ever tell you that the mouth is the front gate of all misfortune?

Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was. Or so I tell myself; and for now, that is enough.

There’s a gentle sigh which descends like billowing silk upon the soul that accepts its coming death. It’s a gentle pocket of air in the turbulence of everyday life… the silk settles around you as...

My skin will never work like that again, so aware of the other person that I’m unsure where she ends and I begin. Never again. Never again will my skin be a thing that can...

There is no logical reason to believe in God. There are emotional reasons, certainly, but I cannot have faith that nothing is something simply because it would be reassuring. I can no more believe in...

With every fragment of rock that fall from me, I can hear the voice of Marianne Engle. I love you. Aishiteru. Ego amo te. Ti amo. Eg elska pig. Ich liebe dich. It is moving...

Some day soon,” Lance said, “you’ll walk out of here and have to decide how you’re going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by...

Talking with the mouth of a beast won’t ease your pain.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you’ll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Coincidentally, a good age for a Japanese girl is younger than twenty five, because that’s when she turns into a ‘Christmas Cake’. Christmas cakes, as everyone knows, are desirable before the twenty fifth but afterward...

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

You are mine,I am yours; you may be sure of this. You’ve been locked inside my heart, the key has been thrown away; within it, you must always stay.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday’s canvas with today’s paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

This is the truth: we all desire to conquer the comely one, because it affirms our own worth. Speaking for the men of the world, we want to own the beauty of the woman we’re...