We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind.
The cruelest thing, hope, the way it strings you along, the way it makes you believe.
I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved one die, and fall in love. I saw my friends going through these things, I saw the world going through these things, and I needed to understand them. I needed to make sense of them. Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books, and it was books that showed me there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from judgement.
I became an ifrit to save the lives of my fellow jinn. What kind of life saver would I be if I let you sit here and wither away in paradise? Just an obstacle. Just an obstacle. I meet the ifrit's eyes. What happened to all your talk about birds and fish having nowhere to live? The ifrit shrugs. I suggest you start holding your breath, my friend, he says, then pushes through the hearing room doors.
No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.
I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.
A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one.
If we would serve science, we must extend her limits, not only as far as our own knowledge is concerned, but in the estimation of others.