It's not courage so much as stubbornness, " Alice said frankly. Her lips curled back from her teeth in a grim smile. "I don't like to lose.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

In all fairness, darlin’, I should probably warn you that this ain’t my first rodeo.

In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread the soil and walk over the hallowed sites.

To her, the name of father was another name for love.

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.

I've never known anyone more ill equipped for happiness. He wouldn't know what to do with it.

Rationalization for bad choices will not be effective, but repentance will. Those who repent will be particularly blessed by the Atonement.

Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.

the Mind of Man-- My haunt, and the main region of my song.