" Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes, not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal

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— Paul (II Cor. 4:16-18)

"Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings."
— Anaïs Nin

"Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
— Albert Einstein

"Woo woo, secret vampire stuff!"
— Charlaine Harris

"Here’s to books, the cheapest vacation you can buy."
— Charlaine Harris

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
— William Shakespeare

"To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
— William Shakespeare

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"Doubt thou the stars are fire. Doubt thou the sun doth move. Doubt truth to be a liar but never doubt I love."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"We know what we are, but not what we may be."
— William Shakespeare

"Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
— William Shakespeare (Hamlet)

"If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber'd here
While these visions did appear."
— William Shakespeare

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!"
— Leonardo da Vinci

"I am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass"
— Cassandra Clare (City of Bones)

"" I want a relationship i can finally sink my teeth into. " - Alexander Sterling. "
— Ellen Schreiber

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds' eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas-abstract, invisible, gone once they've been spoken-and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created."
— Neil Gaiman (Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders)

"Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
— Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven: With, the Philosophy of Composition)

"There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic."
— Diane Setterfield (The Thirteenth Tale)

"Never run from anything immortal. It attracts their attention. "
— Peter S. Beagle (The Last Unicorn)

"Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good."
— P.C. Cast (Betrayed)

"Eric moved the broom experimentally and made an attempt to sweep the glass into the pan while it lay in the middle of the floor. Of course, the pan slid away. Eric scowled.
I'd finally found something Eric did poorly."
— Charlaine Harris (Dead as a Doornail)

"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
— Stephen King

"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
— Stephen King

"'Run first,' Shane said. 'Mourn later.'
It was the perfect motto for Morganville."
— Rachel Caine (Glass Houses)

"My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
— William Shakespeare (The Taming of the Shrew)