“Don't allow the lucid moment to dissolve
Let the radiant thought last in stillness
though the page is almost filled and the flame flickers
We haven't risen yet to the level of ourselves.”

“What they had between them was still as fragile as a flickering candle flame, as delicate as eggshell - and he knew that if it shattered, if he somehow let it break and be destroyed, something inside him would shatter too, something that could never be fixed.”

“In the instant their lips first met, there was a flicker of something almost electrical that made him believe the feeling would last forever.”

“You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.”

“When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.”

“You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages — they haven't ended yet.”

“But it was mortality that made them what they were, the flame that blazed brighter for it's flickering”

“Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.”

“The ironic fact about our education system is that even those who study to be smart often don't get the flickering flame of wisdom from what they learn.”

“And yet, people still turn to Jesus. You will notice though that the kind of people who turn to Jesus tend to be the sort of people who haven't done that well with everybody else.”