I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

You should have fallen in love with a happy man, if you wanted happiness. But no, you had to fall for the breathtaking beauty of pain.

War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.