Strength, confidence, humility and love. Hector Ricardo's four tenets of life.

I'll come back to you," I say. "I promise you, if it's the last thing I do, I'll come back to you." Her face is buried in my neck. She nods. "I'll count the minutes until you do." she says.

That's another one of Sandor's rules for hiding in plain sight: always appear to be weaker than I actually am. Never push it.

And that’s about all any of us can really hope for, to die with our dignity, to die with honor and valor. To die knowing we did everything we could.

We will not conquer our obstacles by running away from them. Speed does not matter, just that we do not stop.

It might drive some people crazy, living like this, but the quiet keeps me company.

You can let your anger destroy you, or you can use it for something.