"You don't fight for peace sister,' Nahara told me, 'You embrace it."

"It's not finding what's lost, it's understanding what you've found."

"In a world of sorrow, love was an act of will. All you needed were the right ingredients."

"He was in love, and people in that condition did stupid, unfathomable things. They were all flawed, every single one."

"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."

"People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost."

"Remember what I've told you. Remember me."

"I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?"

"Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle."

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."

"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."

"Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!"

"What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die."

"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

"When we give someone our time, we actually give a portion of our life that we will never take back."

"I am involved in the land of a leonine and brave people, where every foot of the ground is like a well of steel, confronting my soldier. You have brought only one son into the world, but everyone in this land can be called an Alexander."

"This was a townscape raised in the teeth of cold winds from the east; a city of winding cobbled streets and haughty pillars; a city of dark nights and candlelight, and intellect."

"We should be careful of the insults we fling at others, lest they return and land at our feet, newly minted to apply to those who had first coined them."

"A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?"

"Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself."

"The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea."