The best kinds of practical jokes are those a bit backfire on whoever’s playing the trick. - Charles de Lint

She knew this music — knew it down to the very core of her being — but she had never heard it before. Unfamiliar, it had still always been there inside her, waiting to be woken. It grew from the core of mystery that gives a secret its special delight, religion its awe. It demanded to be accepted by simple faith, not dissected or questioned, and at the same time, it begged to be doubted and probed.

I know that feeling all too well, but I broke the only pair of rose-colored glasses I had the chance to own a long time ago.

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged.