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.

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

Fear is your sword

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.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

When a man meets the right woman, he meets a new strength!

Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There's no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.

I actually write a lot, but mostly just daily gibberish. I am a documentation addict: "I just peed. I walked down the hallway. I dropped my pencil. I just aged a minute."

Gratitude grows from a seed called grace. If you're not grateful you might still be trying to earn what God freely gives.

God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation.

Documentaries are my favorite thing, and the more depressing, the better.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

What is the difference between astroturf and grass? I don't know, I never smoked astroturf.

He turn'd his charger as he spake, Upon the river shore, He gave his bridle reins a shake, Said, "Adieu for evermore, my love, And adieu for evermore."