But courage wasn't an absence of fear; it was fighting despite the knot in your stomach.

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.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

The end came as dusk fell on a gloomy winter day of cold rain.

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

I think first of all, the United States has got to adopt a policy of befriending and creating allies around the world.

Most people doing the decathlon these days are quite boring, so people don't relate to them.

Retribution often means that we eventually do to ourselves what we have done unto others.

Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

There is no positive law: Many things are bad by that, which otherwise were not.