Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty...

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

We can't build our dreams on suspicious minds.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

I would be the last person who would say immigrants are not important to America.

Art is running away without ever leaving home.