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

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.

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.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Aviation will give new nourishment to the religious sprit of mankind. It will add airspace to those other great heighteners of the cosmic mood: the wood, the sea, the desert.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

Our work is to present things that are as they are.

I will never again stand on the pitch as a professional player. But I won't stop playing the game.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.

Live and let live. You snooze, you lose. Make your life a dream and your dreams come to life.

My wretched dragon is perplexed.

Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.