“Darkness cannot rule light forever, and evil never truly has won dominion over good.”

“It seemed unreal and unfair—that someone purposed for such evil could appear so alluring and ethereal.”

“You walk in both light and shadow, and each one fits you.”

“Saving the body will do nothing but prolong the death. It is the souls that are immortal, and you cannot give yours away.”

“Deception was another phase of life, with betrayal at its heels; or sometimes, shining in its eyes.”

“Life isn’t about what you’ve lost.”

“Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!”