For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair. The medications helped, too, I thought, sir.

Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

I don’t duel, boy. I kill as a soldier kills, which is as a butcher kills, as quickly, efficiently, and with as least risk to myself as I can arrange.

Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say.

Forward momentum only worked as a strategy if one had correctly identified which way was forward.

What you are is a question only you can answer.