We are as we are. How can you claim to know what life I was meant to lead, let alone threaten to force me into it? All your quibbling is nonsense. As well forbid your nose to snuff, or your ears to hear. We are as we do.

In real life, things don't all end at the nice same place. To keep the story real, there has to be kind of a ragged edge at the end of a novel.

The fight isn't over until you win it, Fitz. That's all you have to remember. No matter what the other man says.

One can only walk so far from one's true self before the bond either snaps, or pulls one back.

Death is always less painful and easier than life! You speak true. And yet we do not, day to day, choose death. Because ultimately, death is not the opposite of life, but the opposite of choice. Death is what you get when there are no choices left to make.

Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.

Cats talk to whomever they please.