the dark and the light

The dark is generous, and it is patient, and it always wins--but in the heart of its strength lies its weakness: one lone candle is enough to hold it back

Love is more than a candle.

Love can ignite the stars.

- Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith by Matthew Woodring Stover

misconception

We are looked upon as deceivers, yet we are true;
As obscure, yet we are known;
As dying, yet behold, we live on;
As chastened, yet not put to death;
As sorrowful, yet ever glad;
As poor, yet enriching many;
As having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

- 2 Corinthians 6:8-10

Prometheus Unbound

The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

the world is mine

The woman I love... burns with jealousy, leaps to conclusions, cries and turns to ice. But when she laughs, the world is mine.

- Maison Ikkoku

how soon is now

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

- David Grayson

the path of honor

A craven can be as brave as any man, when there is nothing to fear. And we all do our duty, when there is no cost to it. How easy it seems then to walk the path of honor. Yet soon or late in every man's life comes a day when it is not easy, a day when he must choose.

- A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

neglectful friends

It isn't that I forget. But at a certain point the memory of a person stops accompanying me wherever I go. It stays behind, the way a city stays behind as a train pulls out of the station. It's there, somewhere behind you, and you could go back and make sure of it. But why should you?

- The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (modified quote)