My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.

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.

Whatever happens to you, once you have hope you will survive.

Write it down now! You may never know who will read it tomorrow!

Listening is two part, attention and thinking. The latter is what a lot of us don't do

I drove my mum and dad mad.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

[To waiter who had spilled soup on her:] Never darken my Dior again!

You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.

Nobody respects a country with a poor army, but everybody respects a country with a good army. I raise my toast to the Finnish army

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.