Everything is wrong.I am alive.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

I am the shadow of the flame.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

The war never leaves.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

Might was the measure of right.

Elections with integrity are a challenge everywhere, including in the West.

Everything in life is most fundamentally a gift. And you receive it best and you live it best by holding it with very open hands.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

Whereas Rolling Stone, I just never had anything to do with them. I'd stop by the office maybe twice a year.

I want to be a blonde vampire. Catherine Deneuve was a blonde vampire, and she was my favourite vampire ever.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.

...to see the light. (Last words)