the language of the stars

“That kind of sacrifice creates a debt, and there’s nothing magic likes better than the great hollow of a debt.”

“She was neither beautiful nor made of malice, as many of the Fair Folk are said to be. Mostly she was fretful and often tired.”

“If we get to the point where we don’t help each other anymore, that’s when we stop being human.”

“People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.”

"We are immortal. And what we have before us are the rich feasts that conscience cannot appreciate and mortal men cannot know without regret. God kills, and so shall we."

"Nature, uncontaminated by false refinement, every where acts alike in the great occurrences of life."

“Always they had been portioning out fragments of the bog’s life in exchange for fragments of their own.”

“The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the colored canvas, reveals himself.”

"This is a battle for hearts and minds. A battle for the fans."

"Royal Tenenbaum bought the house on Archer Avenue in the winter of his 35th year. Over the next decade, he and his wife had three children, and then they separated."

“Girls hunger. And we’re taught, from the moment our brains can take it, that there isn’t enough food for us all.”

“Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.”

“Your heart's desire is to be told some mystery. The mystery is that there is no mystery.”

"On the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world.”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

I don't think this'll get any attention, but I made it just for fun so I don't mind :)

“Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.”