You’ve never had someone you love snatched, ” I shot back, annoyed by her ignorance. “Any sense of safety kind of bites it after that. You watch your back because no one else can.

I sent a silent prayer up to the Phoenix to keep her safe a little longer, because I would tear the shifters limb for limb until I got my baby sister back.

My dad had always said to not trust something unless it’s taken a tumble in the dirt. He’d meant it for people, and for things. Shiny and new didn’t exist for humankind any more.

Being inside this cottage, with dark wooden walls and hand-carved furniture like my own home, cast a darkened stain onto my heart.

Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined.

Are you telling me Kara Orris is afraid of rain?” Hunter’s grin twisted into a smirk as his eyes lit up, relishing his new discovery with absolute delight. “Why, that’s adorable!

My hands trembled, so I took a deep drag to calm my frayed nerves. I just wanted to forget that terrible sight, but questions multiplied in my mind as the smoke furled.

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Humankind has always had access to Shadow -- dreams, nightmares, legends, inspiration, Humanity taps into Shadow every day. And when we die, we pass into Twilight.

The love you have for your child is so much greater than any challenge you'll face as a parent, and that's what helps you through.

Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space. Invite one to stay.

No place is ever the same tomorrow.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

I'm not sure whether it's good fortune or bad, but I've died many times on screen.

If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill.