I wanted proof, not promises.

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 best thing she was, was her children.

It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

Attitude determines the altitude of life.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

God bless the Union; - it is dearer to us for the blood of brave men which has been shed in its defence.

We have to recognise that the validation of identity comes through relationships we have and what we produce.

Empathy in broadest sense refers to the reactions of one individual to the observed experiences of another

We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know.

One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.