I never knew I had the power to hurt him, only that he possessed the power to hurt 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.

None of us just pop into the world fully formed, so it's the little facts that make us.

I’m not a religious person; I would call myself an atheist. I don’t have a good story behind it, I’m just reasonable.

I have an air mattress. It's great because if someone tries to suffocate me in bed I can just poke a hole in it and use it to stay alive.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

I guess the quality that makes one write poetry keeps one from selling it.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

I'm beginning to wonder if the symbol of the United States pretty soon isn't going to be an ambassador with a flag under his arm climbing into an escape helicopter.

The worst evils are those that never arrive.

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm there.