“We all romanticize the people we adore.”

“People used to romanticize the natural world, before the Rising. These days, we mostly just run away from it.”

“Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence. It inculcates purity and harmony, the mystery of mutual charity, the romanticism of the social order. It is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.”

“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.”

“We always ignore the ones who adore us, and adore the ones who ignore us.”

“Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out.”