Intellectual understanding does not always bring visceral belief.

I'm not a liar, sir,' she said. "'No, I'm sure you sincerely become whatever it is you're pretending to be.

The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.

A duel is just two murders who agree to take turns trying to kill each other.

because if you can’t kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and no one will ever save you.

She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men, not on the strength of their arguments, and not in their cleverness or prowess in battle, but rather on the force of their character, the intensity of their passion, their strength of soul, their compassion, and... ah, this above all... their conversation.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.