Your heart is not a wound to be poked at to see if the scab is ready to come off. You can be healed of that very old pain, if you’ll just let it happen. (Marianne)

Some wounds cut us so deep that they stop us. Stop us from letting go, from growing up, from seeing the truth.

We hate most in others what we dislike in ourselves.

Never interrupt when you're winning.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' " "Me, too," I said.

"I was just offered a contract on your life, for enough money to make it worth my while." It was my turn to be quiet. "Did you take it?" "Would I be calling you if I had?" "Maybe," I said. He laughed. "True, but I'm not going to take it." "Why not?" "Friendship." "Try again," I said. "I figure I'll get to kill more people guarding you. If I take the contract, I only get to kill you." "Comforting."

Never argue when you're winning.