There's never an easy route to the things that matter.

A name can't begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that's the magic of names, isn't it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

It is important to know what a person was. But it's more important to know what they are now.

Tattoos...are the stories in your heart, written on your skin.

There's more to life than just surviving . . . but . . . sometimes just surviving is all you get

Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.