But you can’t give them everything they want—they will always want more than they have.

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

Fear is your sword

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.

I can sing and dance. I can smile - a lot.

I always want to defeat supervillains - it's just the chicken-and-broccoli diet that I'm not into.

I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.

Advisors are generally brilliant theoreticians but wretched practitioners.

If you're a man in your twenties or thirties, and you have yet to make your fortune, I would urge you not to get married.

Serious work gets done ... in congenial surroundings, which tend to make you laugh.

Remember, to hate, to be violent, is demeaning. It means you're afraid of the other side of the coin -- to love and be loved.

I saw Herschel and he saw me and we stood next to each other because that is what friends do in the presence of evil or love.

my wild, uncured, erratic, incomprehensible heart.