I take it as a man's duty to restrain himself.

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

It's an ancient and honorable term for the final step in any engineering project. Turn it on, see if it smokes.

He's not too short. He's just... concentrated.

There is no more hollow feeling than to stand with your honor shattered at your feet while soaring public reputation wraps you in rewards. That's soul-destroying. The other way around is merely very, very irritating.

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.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.