It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

He decided there was no point in telling her he'd looked in the fridge and seen none of these things. There'd just be some variation of his mother's standard crack about Male Refrigeration Blindness Syndrome.

I know you love me, but I don't know why. I look at you and I just can't get why it's me. Every time I get my balance, I lose it again. Because it shouldn't be me, and I think it'd kill me if you ever figured that out.

Once you considered failure you were one step farther away from success.

Something your father wouldn't have told you, he began. Taking blood, it leaves a mark on you. No matter how it's done, or how it's justified, it leaves a mark that goes in deep. Be sure you're willing to wear that mark before you take the blood.

You know, lieutenant, you wear your weapon the way other women wear pearls." "It's not a fashion accessory.