We’re bound by chains of love, but they don’t weigh us down. Instead, they allow us to be bigger and better than we are.

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.

If I’ve prayed, I never have to worry about being the first one to show up.

by the time you open your eyes, the world might have already changed.

A prisoner should know that there are thousands of imprisoned freemen living in this world…jailed in their own society, handcuffed by duties..

A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe, and fifty times : It is a beautiful catastrophe.

I think that training is important. I think you need to learn as much as you can learn. I would say that it's important and probably crucial, but I wouldn't say that everyone has to have it.

When a man is tired of New York he is tired of work. And thought. And cheesecake.

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Today, America has become one of the most powerful forces for good on earth. We must keep it so.

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.