“Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air.”

“It is not against reason, said the Englishman, to prefer the destruction of the world to a scratch on your finger how much easier to understand the same price for the gash in your soul.”

“Self-pity, while it should be accorded due respect, is the greatest of all acids to the human soul.”

“Do you have any idea how mad you sound?Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity. (...)And?Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective in reason, h...”

“The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dogs dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to fee...”

“We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.”

“Many are called, few are chosen.”

“Hypocrites,’ replied Cale, ‘I’ve come across a lot of them recently. I mean by that I understand now how many of them there are.”

“t was once famously said that it is as well that wars are so ruinously expensive, else we would never stop fighting them. However well said, it seems also to be endlessly forgotten that, while ther...”

“I love you" I say."I love you, too" he says. "I'll see you soon.”

“We've all started to put down the virtues of the other factions in the process of bolstering our own. I don't want to do that. I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest." He...”

“When her body first hit the net, all I registered was a gray blur. I pulled her across it and her hand was small, but warm, and then she stood before me, short and thin and plain and in all ways un...”