“...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams.”

“I have this dream, she and I side by side in life, turning front to front in lovemaking, back to back in threat, protecting each other.”

“Strange that one man's actions could touch so many other people, like a single, thoughtless breath of wind coming in an open window and blowing the playing cards every which way.”

“Nature gives you the face you possess at twenty . . . Life the face you possess at thirty. But the face you have at fifty is the face you deserve.”

“When I was a child, I thought as a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child but when I grew up I put away childish things; for now we see through a glass darkly but then face to face!”

“He could live in this shifting place of betrayals within betrayals, of no loyalties honored, of the strong crushing the weak, no more. He preferred soldiering where you knew who your enemies were before the battle began.”

“Er zijn geheimen die je zelfs aan jezelf niet toegeeft. Zoals er in elk huis plaatsen zijn waar altijd schaduw hangt”