He’s worth fighting for, but I won’t change who I am for any man. No more than he should alter himself to suit me.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

A human being who trades away individuality for conformity is nothing but a slave.

To feel admiration for a man all through one's married life would, I think, be excessively tedious.

Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

We must make living in harmony with the Earth a priority. This is our home... the only one we have!

What do great artists do when you see a world around you that's in turmoil? Some of the best artists make you feel good (hah), they look to the future.

Creating anything is hard.

We are sometimes so busy being good angels that we neglect to be good men and women.