Death is an insatiable creature with greedy hands.

It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.

There are much more important qualities to have than a docile disposition.

Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.

I love how you still think if you tell me to do something, I'll just check my brain at the door and do it.

I reach up and pat them both on the head. "Poor things. If you had a boy that looked like Logan, you'd be kissing him every chance you had, too.

And for me, it means honoring those who've loved me and sacrificed for me by choosing to be the kind of warrior who delivers justice even when it threatens to hurt me.

Sometimes the thing you think will fix everything ruins it instead. And sometimes what hurts you has to tear you apart before it makes you stronger.

Thank you for telling me fairy tales, but also for teaching me how to face the battle I'd need to win in real life.

Sometimes having courage means the hardest tasks fall onto your shoulders, and those leave the biggest scars.

Let Ian laugh. Let him believe pain will ruin me. I know better. I've already been ruined once, and I know how to rise from the ashes. I know how to find my broken pieces.

There are two main predictions for the future

No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.

When in doubt, respond to what you witness, not what you hear secondhand.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

The outfit soon took on color, dash and a unique flavor which is the essence of that elusive and deathless thing called soldiering.

Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.

We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak.

I'm all right. I'm good. There has been better times, but I'll be okay.

Jokes are grievances.

Eating chicken without skin is like riding a bike without wheels