“Gratitude takes less energy than anger.”

“You're afraid of your own anger.”

“Your sadness is one of the things that makes you beautiful to me. Don't you see that? I understand it. It makes my own sadness less frightening." (Brigan)”

“A man who fights you as he does is no better than an opportunist and no worse than a thug.”

“What a horrifying notion," he said. "A creature with the power to take over one's mind.”

“Everyone was willing to take some small risk to lessen the damage of their ambition and disorder and lawlessness.”

“Mercy was more frightening than murder, because it was harder.”