“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”

“You know, you don't have to have money to be a successful businessperson. You don't need a college degree. You just need a lot of common sense backed up by a willingness to work hard.”

“The lines of fate on my hand, once so bright, faded into echo.The memory of his face in my dreams, once so luminous passed into shadow.”

“Her heart was leading her where it belonged. To him.”

“Self-defense was an accepted motive for murder.”

“But that did not stop her heart from shattering into countless pieces or her soul from shredding into slivers.”

“Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children, raising them with him. All the while, Signý, caged in his dungeons, hearing all the painful details of his life with someone else, drowning in her own despair, her love for him turning to hatred. A more tragic life, she could not imagine.”