Sometimes we make our alliances not by the shape and color of our flesh but by the convictions of our heart.

You'll feel a tingling in your chest," says a surgeon. "It's nothing to worry about.

With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.

Sometimes, though, you make a pact with yourself. I'll pretend there's nothing wrong if you pretend there's nothing wrong. It's called denial, and it's one of the strongest pacts in the world. Just ask all those people who were still drinking champagne while the Titanic went down.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

No true hero ever believes that they are one.

He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.