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

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.

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.

Boys are raw materials that women manufacture into products called men.

You don't need to move mountains when love will fly you over.

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

It is the brushwork of the right value and color which should produce the drawing.

Green how I love you green. Green wind. Green boughs. The ship on the sea And the horse on the mountain.

I was born to an Arab father and I was born Islamic.

It's really rare to get a teenage role that resembles something of what it's like to be a young person, that isn't a cliché or a stereotype.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

I don't like acting; not in front of the camera.