“some choices you make with your heart some with your head but when in doubt choose head over heart.... it will keep you alive. -merry gentry”

“being physically intimidating didn't keep you from getting your feelings hurt. Everyone's heart is the same size.”

“You fight so hard, so long, to cut someone out of your heart, but it’s not always your heart that betrays you.”

“People talk of sorrow as if it is soft, a thing of water and tears. But true sorrow is not soft. True sorrow is a thing of fire, and rock. It burns your heart, crushes your soul under the weight of mountains. It destroys, and even if you keep breathing, keep going, you die.”

“Grimes believed in what he did, with no doubts. Though he was older than me by over a decade, I suddenly felt old. Some things mark your soul, not in years but in blood and pain and selling off parts of yourself to get the bad guys, until you finally look in the mirror and aren’t sure which side you’re on anymore. There comes a point when having a badge doesn’t make you the good guy, it just makes you one of the guys. I needed to be one of the good guys, or what the hell was I doing?”

“What do you do when you know you are breaking someone's heart, but to do anything else would break your own?”

“There was a time when you would have taken my heart with stake or gun. Now you have taken it with these delicate hands and the scent of your body."- Jean-Claude”