"I would always be lonely, but no more alone."
- Sonya Hartnett
"Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair."
"Yeah, reflections! The same, but different. Like twins - like blood brothers! And when you need something bad done, like punishment or revenge, you'll just ask me, and I will do it -"
"Every atom in me feels composed of lead. This is what dying is: a pull to the ground."
"She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly."
"We both knew that what I said was the truth, as well as being a lie. The pure and honest answer was pinging between us, hovering above the weeds."
"She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in."
"You're just a coward, like all those who stand behind the suffering of others."
"The quest for power is strange in that, once the quest has begun, the destination always seems to shift ever further away. What power one has is never enough; whatever happiness one had turns to bitte..."
"In the quest for power, truth is always the first thing left behind."