'whatever comes can't alter one thing. if i'm a princess in rags and tatters, i can be a princess inside. it would be much easier to be a princess if i were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.'

'not all scars show, not all wounds heal, you can't always see the pain someone feels.'

'listen as the wind blows from across the great divine, voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time'

' i don't want you to smile. a smile is concealing. it is often a mask.'

'happiness is the feeling you enjoy between periods of unhappiness. are happy episodes not measured against sad episodes? what would a state of unwavering happiness really be like, other than a bland monotone devoid of texture and contrast? perhaps unhappiness defines happiness as surely as night defines day.'

'love is nothing, nothing, nothing like they say'

'the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one'

'tapes, like photographs and videos are a desperate attempt to steal something from death's suitcase'

'life is a series of pulls back and forth. you want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn't. you take things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted.'

'noone will ever love you as much as i love you. i love you. why is that not enough?'

'I'm sorry.. i'm not perfect'

'alas i have grieved so i am hard to love. yet love me - wilt thou? open thine heart wide...'

'sometimes i do pretend i am a princess. i pretend i am a princess, so that i can try and behave like one.'

'in between the thoughts there is something and not nothing. the thoughts are covering it up and shielding it like a curtain and it is in my middle. and if i stop thinking it will swallow me up. it is an abyss.'

'a butterfly is a love note folded in two'

'if you love somebody, let him go. if he loves you, he will come back. if he doesn't come back, he was never yours to begin with.' 12:16:00 AM