Be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.

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)

He didn't look the least bit tired. A morning person, even after no sleep at all. It was disgusting.

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.

Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.