“you don't know until you know!”

“if it's not the RIGHT thing to do it's something else!”

“Don't fear opening a Gift God gives you simply because the packaging isn't 't what you expected..we can't know what's in a gift given until it's unwrapped”

“Three years with Claudia had taught Ruso that when a woman said something did not matter and refused to tell you what it was, it usually mattered a great deal—to her, if not to you. Frequently her way of punishing you for not knowing what it was in the first place was to refuse to tell you until you gave up asking. This was her cue to accuse you of not caring about her, otherwise you would have known what she wanted you to know without having to be told. Finally, if you were lucky, she would explain the latest way in which you had failed her expectations. If you were not lucky, she would explain...”

“Don't stop until you get enough.”

“Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it.”

“Set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there.”