“I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it.”

“A man can't hit a woman and stay a man. He becomes a loathsome thing, even to himself. But the woman who stays with such a man panders to his darkness. They both risk their souls.”

“Not much comes easy in this world, Sonny. If it does, it's best to be suspicious of it. It's probably not worth much.”

“I would tell people some years later that I was raised an only child and so was my brother.”

“Even a fool learns something once it hits him.”

“They did not know her-gods are hard for mortals to recognize.”

“I know not what the future holds, but I know who holds the future.”