“You are a stupid fucking woman, Emily Colt. Just like all your kind. I know you hate Americans, butI never said I hated Americans, Sergei spat. I said your kind. Women. It doesnt matter to me what ...”

“What to do with life? Get out of bed, Derek. Thats what you do. You get out of bed, and you get yourself a cup of fucking coffee. Thats all you can do.”

“The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory without emptiness.”

“The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.”

“Let her go, Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.”

“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted...”

“Love, like madness, can only fill the models that society makes available.”

“PTSD in its rawest form is a death sentence which causes many veterans and others to execute themselves in hope to be free.”

“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

“I knew right then that I wanted to be a part of something that meaningful. I wanted to have something I was so passionate about that I'd be willing to risk everything for it. I wanted to know that ...”

“Do it with passion or not at all.”