Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.

In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.

You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.

I am the shadow of the flame.

They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.

The war never leaves.

For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.

I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.

Red blood is just so hard to clean up" "You would know" I snap remembering Shade. "Because no matter how hard you try to hid it I see it all over your hands

So you choose him?''Cal betrayed me, and I betrayed him. And you betrayed us both, in a thousand different ways.' The words are heavy as stone but right. So right. 'I choose no one.

Words can lie. See beyond them.

The power of belief gives legitimacy to whatever may be necessary.

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

Just because it doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean that it's not wonderful for someone else.

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

Soon after I was born, my parents moved to the South Florida area, and I've lived here ever since (with a few years of living in both Portugal and Brazil in my younger days).

I’m not sure I could trust a man who would bypass an Oreo in favor of vanilla wafers. It’s a fundamental character flaw, possibly a sign of true evil.

It took me twenty years study and practice to work up to what I wanted to play in this performance. How can she expect to listen five minutes and understand it?

Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

I'm not religious. It's an issue, 'cause I've got two little kids, and I feel you can't grow up without knowledge of religion.