How ugly we must look to them, spilling light into every dark corner to push back the shadows, blinding ourselves to the true beauty of emptiness.

Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility.

It was the feeling of finally finding a puzzle piece that fit into place. Of bursting through the surface of the water and taking the breath that had been burning in my lungs. Of remembering the word that'd been on the tip of my tongue for decades. This was the feeling I'd been missing all those years.

Wilhelm's hands trembled. “I'll bring you only misery.” “I'll take a lifetime of misery with you over a day of love from Mr. Dubois.