“It's not cruelty, maybe, but a desire to understand that motivates them.”

“People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.”

“I traded cowardice for cruelty; I traded weakness for ferocity.”

“Suicide to them is an act of selfishness. Someone who is truly selfless does not think of himself often enough to desire death.”

“Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.”

“The cruelty of fate is that I must travel with the people I hate when the people I love are dead behind me.”

“It is more important for you to be safe than right, for the time being. Understand? (...) But please, when you see an opportunity...ruin them”