This is what war does. Right here, in my hands. This is war.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all.

I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.

You can't say everything, so you don't say nothing.