most of us, as we undergo the growing up process, do not get what we want or even what we should. We get what we have, and no more, and we find out how to make what we have work for us.

And ordering me around is exactly the wrong way to make me do what you want.

What you can't run away from, you have to face

Really, I scolded myself, you should have known that you'd end up in a stone dungeon with no facilities. That's how these things always end up, isn't it?

The end of a gun looks very big and very back when it's staring you in the face.

Christophe, with the careful tone of an adult telling a kid not to pet the nice foaming-rabid pooch.

That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you.