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

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?

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.

There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.

The pursuit of your vision determines your focus

We don't want to push our ideas on to customers we simply want to make what they want.

You will not accept credit that is due to another, or harbor jealousy of an explorer who is more fortunate.

Dullness is a kind of luxury.

I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today.

Every day there is only one thing to learn: how to be honestly happy.

The facts we see depend on where we are placed and the habits of our eyes.