Grief,she reminded herself, is almost always for the mourner's loss.

From now on the enemy is more clever than you. From now on the enemy is stronger than you. From now on you are always about to lose.

Music isn't just a pleasure, a transient satisfaction. It's a need, a deep hunger; and when the music is right, it's joy. Love. A foretaste of heaven. A comfort in grief. Is it too much to think that perhaps God speaks to us sometimes through music? How, then, could I be so ungrateful as to refuse the message?

For it is in the millions of small melodies that the truth of history is always found, for history only matters because of the effects we see or imagine in the lives of the ordinary people who are caught up in, or give shape to, the great events.

You’re not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

This is the Speaker for the Dead? Judging someone by appearances?" "Maybe I've fallen in love with Grego." "You've always been a sucker for people who pee on you.