Richard was a riddle with no answer, and I was tired of playing a game I couldn't win.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

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

I tried to picture a young, insecure Edward and couldn't, but it was nice to know that once he'd been a boy. Sometimes it felt like Edward had sprung full grown from the head of some violent deity,like a vicious version of Athena.

I have no personal stake in these people, Jean-Claude, but they are people. Good, bad, or indifferent, they are alive, and no one has the right to just arbitrarily snuff them out.” "So it is the sanctity of life you cling to?" I nodded. “That and the fact that every human being is special. Every death is a loss of something precious and irreplaceable.

I worry that when you start quoting Machiavelli to justify your actions, you have ceased to be one of the good guys. No, quoting Nietzsche does that. Machiavelli is just cool.