“It's in my blood, as magic is in yours." His mouth is still smiling, but his tone is somber. "I couldn't stop writing even if I wanted to.”

“If I could, I would live forever in this moment. But no one can live in a moment, and time moves on.”

“Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.”

“You don’t deserve to end up in a place of eternal torment because you love someone else.”

“You are arrogant," says the cat, "and you are in love. Either one of these things alone might be overcome, but together, they make for a stubborn combination.”

“When you take advice from a cat, there are always consequences.”

“I'm angry at the lies that hide behind my eyesBut untangling them scares me, so I keep them alive.I'm angry at the chip in my tooth and the crick in my back,And the fact that it's too late to change my track.I'm angry that my heart beat is a stutter and my mouth follows suit And that the rain seeps in through the holes in my bootsI'm angry that not one of you will know what I meanEven if I break it into syllables and put it on a screenI'm angry that the world keeps its answers under lock and keyIf it's revealing them to anyone, it sure isn't meI'm angry that there's more of us on Earth than there has been beforeAnd though it's doubtful we can take it, people still want moreI'm angry at the idleness that you call industryCall it caution, call it planning, but it looks like lethargy I'm angry that my friends are strangers, even after we meetAs though we know we'll never ever see the other one's streetI'm angry that we hide behind the media-sphereThough all of us are present, there is nobody hereI'm angry that the world demands I stay on the ballI'm angry that I'm not angry-- at all.”