The battle had been invisible to the naked eye, but the hardest ones are.

I kept it to remind me that although there is evil, there is sometimes beauty and light. You, Jillian. You were always my light.

You could ask me to teach you.” “Huh?” This night is getting weird in a hurry. “Teach me like you’re teaching a class or something? What are you going to call it: ‘You Too Can Be a Sociopath 101’?” “It would be more like a graduate-level class.” I start to snicker. His sense of humour sneaks up on you. Then I remember who’s talking and bite it off.

Hard. Fast. Deep. When I'm done you'll know you're mine.

You might be able to thrash your way out of a spiderweb, but thrashing in quicksand doesn’t work. The harder you fight, the more ground you lose. Struggling merely expedites your inevitable defeat.

One of the primary tenets of the course was that highly successful leaders kept journals, morning and night, in order to stay tightly focused on their goals.

Being nearly naked around Barrons felt a lot like going to a shark convention lightly basted in blood.