Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

Sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage.

Rage was sometimes a useful ally in the heat of a fight, but it was a trickster. It made everything seem possible.

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

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

Suffering is easier to endure when shared.

Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace." "I thought that if you had courage you always had it.". . . "Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.