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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
“Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose,”
“People see what they wish to see. And in most cases, what they are told that they see.”
“And they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
“How can I excel at a game when you refuse to tell me the rules?”
“There may be decisions to make, and surprises in store. Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
familiar with a great deal of the corners.
“I speak languages with more ease than I read or write them,” she explains. “It is something in the feel of the sounds. I could attempt to put them on paper but I am sure the result would be appalling.”
“I remember impressions more than actualities. I remember her constant crying. I remember how she looked at me as though I was something to be feared.”
I suppose there will never be a lack of things to say, of stories to be told and shared.
She grounded my imaginative ideas. I saw in details while she saw in scope. Not seeing the scope is why I am here and she is not. I took each element separately and never looked to see that they did not fit together properly.”
“Esse quam videri,” Celia says. “To be, rather than to seem.
There are too many books and not enough shelves to hold them,
“Love is fickle and fleeting,” Tsukiko continues. “It is rarely a solid foundation for decisions to be made upon, in any game.”
“A language you cannot speak yourself is not necessarily a god-awful mess,”
“The most difficult thing to read is time,” Isobel says, and Marco stops, turning back to her. “Maybe because it changes so many things.
“You’re not destined or chosen, I wish I could tell you that you were if that would make it easier, but it’s not true. You’re in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that’s enough.”
“There are no more battles between good and evil, no monsters to slay, no maidens in need of rescue. Most maidens are perfectly capable of rescuing themselves in my experience, at least the ones worth something, in any case.
Good and evil are a great deal more complex than a princess and a dragon, or a wolf and a scarlet-clad little girl. And is not the dragon the hero of his own story? Is not the wolf simply acting as a wolf should act? Though perhaps it is a singular wolf who goes to such lengths as to dress as a grandmother to toy with its prey.”
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows what they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
