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.

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.

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.

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

In mastering one thing, you have mastered all things because you have learned how to learn.

Adversity is mountain in adventure

Dying is more terrifying than actual death.

Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

Space is the breath of art.

Sub-Saharan Africa is also home to 400 million of the world's poorest people.

Jesus may love you, but i'm his favourite

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

...it was imaginative people who tended to lie. Lying required making stuff up, and only imaginative people were good at that.

If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied.