Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others.

Hope itself is always genuine. It’s only what it’s placed in that can prove to be false.

Miracles are like murders. After the first one, each becomes easier than the last for, with each success, the miracle-worker’s certainty in himself becomes stronger.

The day that I left my home, I had prayed that my children would forget me. I wanted to spare them the pain of remembering. But that night, as I crouched in the white mist,...

I’d believed mine was the greatest of all the arts, the noblest of all the lies, the creation of hope. I thought hope could overcome everything, but I was wrong. Hope cannot overcome truth. Hope...

Reckon it’s best if you don’t have anyone you care about; then it can’t hurt you. Don’t have to be afraid of losing someone if you no one to lose.

Rain slips through your fingers as easily as words blow away in the wind, and yet it has the power to destroy your whole world.

Pay heed, my darlings, and always take the greatest care over the company you keep in life: if death strikes you without warning, you may be stuck with them til the moon turns to blood...

Are you finally admitting that you can sell a man hope? Have I at last succeeded in teaching you that?’He laughed and flicked his whip again, harder. He was in a better mood than I...

They were just the ordinary sounds of of people beginning their day, silly raucous, discordant, but they were the most beautiful sounds on earth, the sounds of living people.

Home is the place you return to when you have finally lost your soul. Home is the place where life is born, not the place of your birth, but the place where you seek rebirth....