However, there are those who deserve to die but who have not yet encountered the means to do so—we help them on their way.

Why be the sheep when you can be the wolf?

When one consorts with assassins, one must expect to dance along the edge of a knife once or twice.

It takes a surprising amount of courage to place one's hand into an unseen area when your mind is thinking about vermin.

For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.

We are all of us, gods and mortals, made up of many pieces, some of them broken, some of them scarred, but none of them the total sum of who we are.

Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.