Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla

For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.

I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.