Ennet Gaust

“Life,” he said softly, “is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle...” He did not finish.
“A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick,” I said.“I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.”
― S. Jae-Jones, Wintersong

“Thats the trick of growing up. Nothing stays the same." Hook sounded oddly sympathetic. "You see the faults in everything. Including yourself.”
― Austin Chant, Peter Darling

“I think that's what you say when you can't have something you want, isn't it? You say you don't want it in the first place.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, Midnight at the Electric

“Miss Wyndham, I know you’re not pleased with the shocking things you’ve discovered lately, and I know you’ll think even worse of me when I tell you of the things I did before we met. But everything I—”

“Sir, you are a liar and a cheat!” a customer bellowed at the shiner behind us.

Mr. Kent glanced over his shoulder and attempted to ignore the yells. “Everything I do is to—”

“These shoes are still soiled! The mud is right there! Return my money, sir!” the customer yelled again. Mr. Kent bristled and spun around to the shoe shiner.

“Sir, are you wrong in this matter?”

“N-no,” the shoe shiner stammered.

“I’m trying to be fair.” Mr. Kent turned to the customer. “Are you wrong?”

“Yes, of course I am,” he said, his face flushing.

“Then avoid stepping in the mud, shut up, and be on your way! I am trying to convince a girl to love me!”
― Tarun Shanker, These Vicious Masks