“Never can true reconcilement grow where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep…”

“Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.”

“one pierced moment whiter than the rest

-turning from the tremendous lie of sleep
i watch the roses of the day grow deep.”

“Words spoken in deep love or deep hate set things in motion within the human heart that can never be reversed.”

“There’s a place in the soul where you’ve never been wounded.”

“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”

“They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.”

“Love is always a risk; but hate is a deadly peril.”

“Time and tragedy have forced her to grow too quickly, at least for my taste, into a young woman who stitches bleeding wounds and knows our mother can hear only so much.”

“Like the surface of the sea was the mirror of Tuzun Thune; hard as the sea in the sun's slanting beams, in the darkness of the stars, where no eye can pierce her deeps; vast and mystic as the sea when the sun smites her in such way that the watcher's breath is caught at the glimpse of tremendous abysses. So was the mirror in which Kull gazed.”