This is the strange way of the world, that people who simply want to love are instead forced to become warriors.

Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.

Running is a mental sport, more than anything else. You're only as good as your training, and your training is only as good as your thinking.

There are some losses we never get over.

She was mine before she was yours.

Are you sure you can't dematerialize? Not even a little?" "I'm sure.

If you want something, if you take it for your own, you'll always be taking it from someone else.