I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent.

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.

You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”“Does that bother you?”“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for existence, and Death is just another word for non-existence.

Anger is so easy to get into and so hard to get out of.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

The answer to one is the answer to all. Government by 'the people' is expedient or it is not. If it is expedient, then obviously all the people must be included.

Every single night, I swear, EVERY NIGHT!! EVERY NIGHT!! I DELIVER! I deliver.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

I am relatively familiar with getting a good old rumping from the critics. In some cases, the critics just didn't like the film - fair cop. Others, I think, didn't understand it.

Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

I have said many times before, interactivity is the equivalent of radioactivity. For interactivity effects a kind of disintegration, a kind of rupture.