The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

We need to stop fighting Christian against Christian. I have no time for anything but trying to love other people. That is a full-time job.

None of us really changes over time. We only become more fully what we are.

We all suffer under a curse, the curse that we know more than we can endure, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing we can do about the force and the lure of this knowledge.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?