Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after the failure that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

So long as you fight the darkness, you stand in the light.

Your emotions make you human. Even the unpleasant ones have a purpose. Don't lock them away. If you ignore them, they just get louder and angrier.

Mercy is weakness. Offer it to your enemies and you might as well fall upon your own sword.

I should just build a bleeding house here, " I mutter as I pick myself up off the snow-covered ground. "Maybe get a few chickens. Plant a garden.

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them - or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?

You fool, Helene. When you love, there is always more pain.

Failure doesn't define you. It's what you do after you fail that determines whether you are a leader or a waste of perfectly good air.

Don't lock yourself away from those who care about you because you think you'll hurt them or they'll hurt you. What point is there in being human if you don't let yourself feel anything?

You’re sure this is what you want?” I search her eyes for doubt, fear, uncertainty, but all I see is that fire. Ten hells“I’m sure”“Then I’ll find a way

Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back.

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our neighbors.

Life is not something that "has" meaning. It's something we give meaning to. You don't "end up" with a meaningful life, you create it.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

I might look like a tough chick - and I am - but I'm also a hopeless romantic inside.

I like cold. I really like to go to cold towns. I love gray. I love winter.

War is all and king of all

Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer.

Literature is eavesdropping.

I do not lack the courage to think a thought whole.