Life was never simple, happiness never where you thought you'd left it, and right and wrong no more fixed than clouds in the sky.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind works in certain patterns: the mind organizes facts in story form; it is your commonality with that body of human thought that makes a good book, not its estrangement from the common values that humans share.

Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

I'm going to kill that god of yours, next. Then we'll see what you can do, and what you can't.

Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.