You can only win the game when you understand that it is a game. Let a man play chess, and tell him that every pawn is his friend. Let him think both bishops holy. Let him remember happy days in the shadows of his castles. Let him love his queen. Watch him lose them all.

There is something brittle in me that will break before it bends. Perhaps if the [the enemy] had brought a smaller army I might have had the sense to run. But he overdid it.

The biggest lies we save for ourselves.

Anything that you cannot sacrifice pins you. Makes you predictable, makes you weak.

I've always seen 'no' as a challenge rather than an answer.

Hold to a thing long enough, a secret, a desire, maybe a lie, and it will shape you.

Sometime, It's easier to love someone with flaws you can forgive in return for them forgiving yours.