He could hardly breathe at the though of his son and Quintana in Sorel with no one to protect them.

Some of us weren't born for rewards, Froi. We were born for sacrifices.

When a woman has not received much flattery in her life, she will be seduced.

There's not much you need to know about the world. Except how to use a sword and trust very few.

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

You can't go around feeling too much.

Are you an idiot, or an idiot?' Gargarin hissed.'The first one. I really resent being called the second.

Truth is dangerous.

Mercy', Finnikin said, grinning from ear to ear. 'We're going to have a bed full of children and I'll have to holler out to my wife, "Hello there! It's been a long time since we last spoke!

We didn't let them do anything to us, Travanion, " Beatriss said fiercely, "They did it without out permission.

What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.

Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.

The sun and its light, the ocean and the wave, the singer and his song — not one. Not two.

To Beatrice- My love flew like a butterfly Until death swooped down like a bat As the poet Emma Montana McElroy said: 'That's the end of that.

Your day usually goes the way the corners of your mouth turn. The most powerful single thing you can do to influence others is to smile at them.

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

Teach us to number our days aright.

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.