“Calamities reveal your capabilities. Take note of this and when times get odd, prepare and shine.”

“Pressure knocks at my doorA clock ticks and demands its dueThe lava burns from the floorBut not in a game like it used to.So little time to figure it all outSo many distractions to prevent successI’m in a dark forest with no path or routeBut this internal fire knows no rest.”

“When in spotlight, you get attention of even those you don’t know; When in darkness, you lose your own shadow too”

“The monster inside him was finally silent. The sword in his hand spoke a thousand stories, while hundreds of voices screamed feebly through the blood dripping from it. The blade of the sword shined like an evening sky and sang a tale of the darkest revenge.”

“As it has been since the dawn of time, the light and dark are linked as one”

“It is early, early morning. It’s that time when it’s still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying.”

“Shadows fell on them like predators as the light went out.”

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

“I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world… if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try”

“Look for the light as it’s hard to see in the dark.”

“Men may perish, but the world will neither celebrate nor mourn. It will go on.’ His smile thinned. ‘Would you like to know how?”No.”Animals will swell to fill the void left by men,” he told her. ‘And over-swell it, perhaps. There will be other extinctions and other recoveries. The sky will clear, but those who see it will not marvel at its many colors. Those ruins will collapse, burying treasures like this-‘ He waved at the walls. ‘-and this-‘ He picked up the spoon from her coffee tray and tossed it down again with a clatter. ‘-forever, but the world will go on. Years become centuries so easily when no one is there to count them. Centuries become millennia. The forests will reclaim the lands that Men have razed. Rivers will carve canyons across the scars left by this fallen cities. Mountains will rise up, trapping seas to dry under and uncaring sun and leaving the bones of whales to bleach in the newborn deserts for no one to find, no one to be inspired by thoughts of giants and dragons. And still the worlds will go on, and I will go on with it through ages that can only be measured by the coming and going of glaciers. The stars themselves will shift in the heavens and no one will be there to invent names for their new alignments or remember the stories of the old ones, no one but me. In time, the sun itself will begin to cool. Here on Earth, the world goes on and on as its remaining life passes through its last changes and dies away. It will be quiet. And lonely.’ His mouth curved into a bitter line. ‘But I’ll live.”Stop it,’ Lan whispered through numb lips.’I read once that the sun will someday swell and engulf this world before it burns itself out. Perhaps I will finally die with it. Or perhaps I’ will continue to endure… my ashes pulled eternally apart through the frozen vacuum of space, and I with no more mouth to scream… still alive.”

“The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don’t die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.”

“Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.”

“A penny for my thoughts, oh no, I’ll sell them for a dollarThey’re worth so much more after I’m a gonerAnd maybe then you’ll hear the words I been singin’Funny when you’re dead how people start listenin”

“Lady Alainn, yer actin’ altogether peculiar… even for you.”