But I miss the woman I was, even as I learn to accept the new creature I’ve become.

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.

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.

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.

The Truth is first rejected. Then finally accepted.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

The man who goes fishing gets something more than the fish he catches.

Too often the revolutionary is the man who must create order in the chaos left by failed conservatives.

And brought of mighty ale a large quart.

If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void.

As the world gets dumber and dumber, I feel more and more at home.

The more we can have peaceful trade both with Russia, with China, and with others, you know, there's a self interest in this for everyone.

The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.