"Always learn poems by heart. They have to become the marrow in your bones. Like fluoride in the water, they'll make your soul impervious to the world's soft decay."
"The phoenix must burn to emerge."
"And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing."
"Isn't it funny.I'm enjoying my hatred so much more than i ever enjoyed love. Love is temperamental. Tiring. It makes demands. Love uses you, changes its mind. But hatred, now, that's something you can use. Sculpt. Wield. It's hard, or soft, however you need it. Love humiliates you, but Hatred cradles you."
"What can I say about life? Do I praise it for letting you live, or damn it for allowing the rest?"
"And if there is no god?You act as if there is, and it's the same thing."