Joy and life exist nowhere but the present.

Gods you avoid won't hurt you.

Not many women got to live out the daydream of women—to have a room, even a section of a room, that only gets messed up when she messes it up herself.

You can't eat straight A's.

The swordswoman and I are not so dissimilar. May my people understand the resemblance soon so that I can return to them. What we have in common are the words at our backs. The idioms for revenge are 'report a crime' and 'report to five families.' The reporting is the vengeance-not the beheading, not the gutting, but the words.

Humans are basically good. That's why it takes so much training to march march march kill kill kill kill.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.