If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

What is it?" she asked. "I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?" "I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that." "Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?

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

A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, if you know what I mean.

I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.