Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.

They won the war but lost the peace.

It's just that I'm fifteen, and I have this crazy idea I might actually have a life in front of me. I don't see how it's going to do me much good to believe that the world is over and this is just an epilogue.

Is he nuts?" "I think the expression used to be 'touched by God'." "So that would be a yes.

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

Often it was the most unlikely people who found within themselves a spark of something greater. It was probably always there, but most people are never tested, and they go through their whole lives without ever knowing that when things are at their worst, they are at their best.

She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.