#quote: loki

“--perhaps monsters were misunderstood gods; deities with plans too grand for humans; a phantom of evil that drank from the roots of good. He should know. After all, he was a monster.”

[He] knew there was only one difference between monsters and gods. Both inspired fear, only one inspired worship. [He] sympathised with monsters.

Remember this: Nothing is written in the stars. Not these stars, nor any others. No one controls your destiny.

Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic.

Add a trace of light, an outline of time, an artefact of memory, the residue on a cup, an echo of the galaxy in a grain of sand, the shadow of an ancient idea and you may have found what we have.

I will make an attempt to attain freedom, the youthful soul says to itself; and is it to be hindered in this by the fact that two nations happen to hate and fight one another, or that two continents are separated by an ocean, or that all around it a religion is taught with did not yet exist a couple of thousand years ago. All that is not you, it says to itself. No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Any mind that is capable of a real sorrow is capable of good.