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

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?

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

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.

Once you drop a mask, you can never wear it again.

a trauma that breaks you into brand new pieces.

Humor is a serious thing. I like to think of it as one of our greatest earliest natural resources, which must be preserved at all cost.

When you're getting ready to launch into space, you're sitting on a big explosion waiting to happen.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the truth, you have the ability to throw the lights on for your reader.

The Four Rules of Life: 1. Show Up 2. Pay Attention 3.Tell the Truth 4. Don't be upset at the results.

Be patient with the negative people of the world. Take a moment to think how they are helping you clarify your own thinking and firming your own resolve. Then, headslap them out of your way.

My rule is if one person says it, a thousand people want to say it. That goes for compliments too. I try to balance it out in my head.