What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

Fear is your sword

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

You are always on the verge of an adventure so dare to find it with true joy.

The perfect weather of Indian Summer lengthened and lingered, warm sunny days were followed by brisk nights with Halloween a presentiment in the air.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

Humanity is not a church made of stone, in which vault after vault lies open.

We write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children.

Don't be afraid of expressing what you really mean in your art, what you really feel. Say it visually, as strongly as you can. Push as far a reach as you can, then go all the way!

I think that ties in with issues of identity as well - that sometimes there are parts of us we want to hide, and then there's other times we say, "You know what? Nope. Done hiding that part."

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

There is no need of any competition with anybody. U R yourself, and as U R, U R perfectly good. Accept urself