Most people can’t stomach silence; it provides too much opportunity to think about things they prefer to avoid.

More than most, I know the pain of surviving.

Possessiveness isn’t love. I’m not even sure it qualifies as an emotion.

I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.

Because I love you.' It was easy to say it this time now that I understood what it meant. Then I quoted his own words back to him. 'Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Sometimes the past needed to stay buried; it was the only way you could move on. And sometimes you had to dig it up, because that too was the only way.

A huntress never stabbed anything she didn't want to.

Maybe I was just one of those people who couldn't rest easy unless things went catastrophically wrong.

My skill didn't lie in planning battles, only in fighting them.

Time is fluid, so the moments where everything feels perfect pass in a wink, and those where you're on your knees in despair drag on like the death of a thousand cuts.

I’ve lost so many people. Some I left on purpose and never looked back. Some were taken from me, and I never said good-bye.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Don't mistake pleasures for happiness. They are a different breed of dog.

Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new.

To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.

I don't even like holding them. Whenever I hold a gun, I want to get it out of my hand as quick as possible.

The Congressional Black Caucus is a moral fraud. It's amazing how many people are afraid of saying that

Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Your job is to allow the Holy Spirit to remove the fearful thinking that surrounds your perfect self.

Endurance? You've only got to get out there and do it. Face up to it: man was meant to run.