“Sometimes our best action result in things that are most regrettable.”

“The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.”

“Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot—but not twice.”

“And once I got old enough for such a thing to be a possibility, he told me that a man must be responsible for any seed he sows, for it's his duty to take care of a woman and protect her. And if I wasna prepared to do that, then I'd no right to burden a woman with the consequences of my own actions.”

“The colors of living things begin to fade with the last breath, and the soft, springy skin and supple muscle rot within weeks. But the bones sometimes remain, faithful echoes of the shape, to bear some last faint witness to the glory of what was.”

“There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.”

“Sometimes a shadow rises, and death lies nameless in the dark.”