For the longest time, I saw them as the end of my journey, but now I think they were always meant to represent the beginning of yours.

—the longer you silence a violin, the harder it is for it to find its true voice again.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

She imagined she could taste the storm in him, the battering winds of desperation and frustration that met her own, blow for blow.

Half-truths only added up to a whole lie.

It's our choices that matter in the end. Not wishes, not words, not promises.

He said he'd never remarry, because he'd never find another lady that fit so neatly at his side. He called her his equal in spirit.

What good is honour when greed eats away at its foundations?

Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?

If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.

Life itself is nothing but relationship.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

I know I am no better than anyone else in this world. I'm just an actor, that's nothing special. But I'm not into anything bad. Just blackjack.

Some things are sacred. Until you act like they're not. Then you lose them

There can be no freedom in art and literature where the government determines who shall create them.

When you do have really tapped out resources that cover so many investigations, it can help you move through and discard some faster.

Parents have no right to impose their religion on their children... A Fundamentalist Protestant parent has no right to expect the state to support his own narrow conception of education.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.