Tell me, tutor, ' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

Cowards make the best torturers. Cowards understand fear and they can use it.

War, my friends, is a thing of beauty.

It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears.

Gomst's mouth framed a 'no', but every other muscle in him said 'yes'. You'd think priests would be better liars, what with their jobs and all.

I can help you, Jorge. I can give you back your self. I can give you your will.' He held out his hand, palm open. 'Free will has to be taken, ' I said.

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If you think your scars bother me, you're wrong. In my eyes, you're a hero. Your scars are just proof of that.

Endurance is more important than truth because without endurance there can't be any truth. And truth means going to the end like you mean it. That way, death itself comes up short when it grabs

Her eyes were olive green―incisive and clear.

The most understandable thing in the world should be how minutes lead to hours, how hours lead to days, how days can make a year. And yet, this neat progression can still be surprising.

Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.

I'll just ask now: What is it about my persona that draws every insane, power-hungry nutcase to me like a magnet?

Characters are story. And any great plot or subplot is driven by the characters' wants and desires.

We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.

And so they are ever returning to us, the dead.