“Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust. She leaned forward. Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. ...”

“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

“There was a saying that the strength of a mans steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had...”

“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

“You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.”

“He gave me a message for you. She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.What is it?That you are in his blood.I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood....”

“Whos happy? Happy is just what people think they are when they cant find anything to bitch about.”

“Sometimes you have to be a bitch to get things done.”

“Are you a female dog?""What?" Massie asked. "Why?"”

“There used to be days that I thought I was okay, or at least that I was going to be. We'd be hanging out somewhere and everything would just fit right and I would think 'it will be okay if it can j...”

“I want to try with someone who loves me enough to try with me. I want to grow old looking at the same face every morning. I want to grow old looking at the same face every night at the dinner table...”

“Hes dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if hed be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.”