“We find comfort, we find numbness, we learn feats, to deceive others.”

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.”

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“That is the worst thing of all, to discover that all these wondrous things you thought were yours alone are special to someone else.”

P.S. Somtow, Jasmine Nights