If I ever win you," he said, anger bright in his pale eyes, "it will be because you want me more. Not because he's gone. I'm nobody's second best.

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.

I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.

Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

Oh good. I love being bait for a homicidal mutilator." Stephanie Plum

Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

People look for their leadership to lead.

Unless a product becomes outmoded, a great campaign will not wear itself out.

Changing the world takes more than everything any one person knows, but not more than we know together.

It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us.