The woman who opens the door has a blue stain on her shirt and dark hair wound into a messy knot and the most beautiful eyes I have ever seen. They're pale, like a lioness's, nearly golden, but they also look like they've done their fair share of crying, and we all know that a sky with clouds in it is much more interesting than one that doesn't have any.

Or in other words, it's the substance you've got when you start that determines the outcome.

In half hour my mother has managed to give me what my father couldn't: my past.

Power isn't about doing something terrible to someone who's weaker than you, Reiner. It's having the strength to do something terrible, and choosing not to.

I'd like to say that this time I'd kill myself too..but I've never had that kind of courage.

You can’t undo something that’s happened; you can’t take back a word that’s already been said out loud.

They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.