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.

She's not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

You don't love someone because they're perfect," she says. "You love them in spite of the fact that they're not." I don't know how to respond to that; it's like being told after thirty-five years that the sky, which I've seen as a brilliant blue, is in fact rather green.

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

Sometimes I think my whole life has been about holding on to you.

When you begin a journey of revenge, start by digging two graves: one for your enemy, and one for yourself.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.