“the pain of that first lost was still raw. You could deal with it, endure it, but never escape it.”

“If you love someone, truly love them, you should never cause them pain. Never fill their eyes with something so close to grief.”

“Love mattered, in the end. A house without love would always fall, maybe not today or tomorrow, but in the end without love nothing could endure.”

“Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.”

“Sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don't, someone else will.”

“I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.”

“A girl could never have too much jewelry or too much weaponry.”