There are quiet ways to die where the body just doesn’t notice that the heart is gone.

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.

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

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.

education without inspiration is only recipe for desperation

Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes

One cannot get through life without pain. ... What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

It is not what you give your friend but what you are willing to give him that determines the quality of your friendship.

Pray for whatsoever you will. In the name of Jesus you have permission not only to stand in the presence of God but also to pray for everything you need.

This is a war universe. War all the time. That is its nature. There may be other universes based on all sorts of other principles, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods they have not forgotten this.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

Let us heed the voice of the people and recognize their common sense. If we do not, we not only blaspheme our political heritage, we ignore the common ties that bind all Americans.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.