When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

There are three sides to every story: yours, theirs, and the truth somewhere in the middle.

You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.

It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.

Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany

He might fight under my badge, Bet'anya, but you're the only one he would die for.

The most beautiful heart of all is the one that can still love even while it bleeds, and especially after its been broken into thousands of pieces

It's not fair!" (Ryssa)Because life was ever about fairness.Oh, to be as naive as his sister.

See, you’ve got to understand, son. There’s two types of guys in this world. There’s guys . . . who think they’re in control, and guys like us who live in the moment. Who accept life as it is.

Mage-taught wisdom reproached him: any gift of power was two-edged.

Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure Marry'd in hast we may repent at leisure.

Wars should be over in three days or less...and the American people must be all for it from the outset.

I grow more and more suspicious of the political powers that take men away from their work and set them shooting one another.

I'm, like, everybody's friend. I'm one of those dudes. I can be friends with anybody. Any race of person, any personality, I can kind of deal with them. I accept different types of people.

Therefore the blind Jews are truly stupid fools.

A fraternity is an association of men, selected in their college days by democratic processes, because of their adherence to common ideals and aspirations.

I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

Have a seat, while I take to the sky.