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

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.

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

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.

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.

You try, you fail. You try, you fail. But only when you stop trying, do you really fail.-Madam Leota

I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Being a child star is great. It's being a former child star that sucks.

People's social networks do not consist only of people they see face to face. In fact, social networks have been extending because of artificial media since the printing press and the telephone.

The challenge is always before us. Whenever we lose sight of the principles that mattered to our founders we run into trouble.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.

I'm one of those people with restless hands. I need to be doodling, or biting my nails, or making socks.

Most people think that God wants us to demonstrate our love for God by having churches and by having symbols - and I think that's a huge error.