You will be lonely, but you'll become strong.

People of the hundred, " he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

I want to know everything about you." So he told her. The stars, too, seemed to listen.

She said, I'm going to miss you when you when I wake up.Don't wake up, he answered.But he did.Kestrel, beside him on the grass, said. "Did I wake you? I didn't mean to.

He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.

Yet he understood that there are some things you feel and others that you choose to feel, and that the choice doesn't make the feeling less valid.

A dagger wants flesh, her father would say. Find it.

Ultimately, when he held your treasonous letter in his hand and saw how you had lied to him, the choice between me and you was the choice between someone who loves him and someone who didn't.

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

Little Fists, what's wrong?

Will you come with me?""Ah, Kestrel, that's something you never need to ask.

The moment-when I could no longer face myself in the mirror-wasn't easily explained

Starting at the bottom is not about humiliation. It's about humility—a realistic assessment of where you are in the learning curve.

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.

But he was here. In my bed. His body warm and hard and feeling so much like home that I ached.

It may be doubted whether any repentance is genuine which is not repentance for sin rather than sins

The temples of those who deny the Real Presence are like corpses. The Lord was taken away and we do not know where they have laid Him.

Preacher is a book that somehow allows me time by its settling on it's characters, that sort of modern gothic western feel. You're not likely to see the boat veering too far from that.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure, and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.

Life is full of challenges and surprises.

I don't know if I'm a strict parent or a pushover.