The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.
Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.
Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.
Never trust a mirror,’ his mother had told him. ‘They never tell the truth unless you make them.
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.
That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.
Cracks especially. You have to be careful of the cracks.. Sometimes they are disguised as something else. A doorway, or a smile or even a winking eye. And if you fall through them, you never know were you will end up.
Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully
If human lives be,for their very brevity, sweet,then beast lives are sweeter still…
If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,’ I told him. ‘It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.
Mama, don’t take him. We need him,’ Jack whispered. ‘Please. He will not forget you if you let him stay with us. He will love you for ever and every time he laughs, he will remember how you once laughed…
I heard you laughing,’ Jack said. He wanted to say something about the quality of that terrible laughter, but he did not know how to begin. So he said, ‘ I’ve never heard anyone laugh like you do.
Some foolish people must have a tragedy, for they cannot believe in happy endings