My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.

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.

Forgiveness does not come easily to us, especially when someone we have trusted betrays our trust. And yet if we do not learn to forgive, we will discover that we can never really rebuild trust.

A man has to have something he can put faith in.

Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

It's a perfect day here in Australia, glorious blue sunshine

Smooth and smiling faces everywhere, but ruin in their eyes.

I supported Israel 100 percent as a senator for 28 years and I've supported it 100 percent as Secretary of State.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

Rules of society are nothing; one's conscience is the umpire.

I think anybody, not just children, is a product of a great environment. If you put them in a better environment from a sad situation, nine times out of 10, they'll go in the right direction.