She'll never love you better than she loves her own children.

When you take a woman away from her man, what you get is a woman who can be taken away from her man.

Hate will keep you alive where love fails

You can't grow if you're constantly defined by this collection of frozen moments that you keep returning to. And if you can't grow, you're not alive.

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.

I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment.

No half measures. Some things can’t be cut in half. You can’t half-love someone. You can’t half-betray, or half-lie.