His studies were always second to Beatrice. He would've said everything was second to Beatrice but the flowery metaphors and literary devices can only stretch so far and for so many characters.

In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed.

He was a man more concerned with the truth than his arrest quota, a philosophy that would often have him skate on thin ice with the higher ups.

A tear cringed off his cheek and stained her writing on the paper. He didn’t wipe it, men must be honest and transparent, they should never wipe their tears.

We find happiness doing what we love.

What you must do, ” she continued, “you will. Your mission will be as clear to you and as demanding as your heartbeat. Everything else is just a waste of your time.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

A man in loss is not a man to trust.

I'm a physical receiver, yet I can run and move like someone who is 5-8 or 5-9.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

The brutality that can take place in a crime film heightens the tenderness that can also be there.

Size is no guarantee of power.

If we learned to walk and talk the way we learn to read and write, everyone would limp and stutter.

A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it.