It was brave, " countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful.

Bitter, bitter, this desolation of angels.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

Don't I deserve to finally be free of you?

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?

Life and peace. Victory and vengeance.And never the twain shall meet.

I am a link in a chain

to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength

The silence, she thought, was remarkable: a perfect, shimmering thing, and fragile. Like glass, if it shattered, it would never come back together again.

You think it's all obvious and straightforward, this world. But really, it's all in who is doing the looking.

It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.

The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.

I'm never one to compare shows to shows.

I have seen war ... I hate war.

We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.

Please, don't hate me because I am beautiful.

I think some period drama can be quite alienating, but 'Downton' isn't. This is going to sound quite, um, pretentious, but someone said that it's like a soap written by a poet.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.