But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

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.

I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.

Investments are about the return they provide in increased opportunities, prosperity, health, wealth, happiness, joy, and success.

Don't ever put a guy in front of your friends. Friends are most important. And don't make a guy more important than yourself.

Literature is inexhaustible, with every book a homage to infinity

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

I don't own an ABBA album, and I never had the urge to go and buy one. If you're just talking about well crafted pop songs, they were fantastic.

Confusion and impotence are the inevitable results when the wisdom and resources of the world are substituted for the presence and power of the Spirit.

If you know both yourself and your enemy, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss.

Genius is Omniscience flowing into man.

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.