Seeing the enemy as human. A general's ultimate nightmare.

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

I never feared the night, not even as a child, but Blackcliff’s night is different, heavy with a silence that makes you look over your shoulder, a silence that feels like a living thing.

Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent.

I don't smile at her. It will only scare her. For a female slave, a smile from a Mask is not usually a good thing.

There are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

She's still clinging to the side of her mountain, just like I'm still wandering lost in my battlefield.

You—you were like me. You were a child. A normal child. And that was taken from you.”“Does that bother you?”“Well, it certainly makes you harder to hate.

Respect all people as you do your people, and you would be a fine people.

The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you’re bound to win.

Don't you wish it could happen? Your mind wiped clean like a hard drive? Start again without memories?

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

I don't hate anyone. I simply block them out using hellish visions in a blind white rage. But if I see them out I'm pleasant.

The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

A library takes the gift of reading one step further by offering personalized learning opportunities second to none, a powerful antidote to the isolation of the Web.

The heaven I witnessed was so pure, love-filled, and magnificent that I did not want to return to earth.

You should listen to your heart, and not the voices in your head.