It will be impossible to catch all the rats, my love, ” he says. His hand brushes against mine. “Sooner or later, one will squeeze through the cracks. You need to be more careful.

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

Fear is your sword

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection! Yet in what darkness, what dense ignorance, was the mental battle fought!

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently

One word can end a fight

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

There is a wrong way of staying in the world and a wrong way of fleeing from it. In both cases we are fashioning ourselves according to the world.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.

Now I tell you the downside of this is you feel awful, but the upside is you feel terrific.

Opportunity is ever worth expecting; let your hood be ever hanging ready. The fish will be in the pool where you least imagine it to be.