“I could never hate you as much as I love you.”

“Tex? I whispered.Yeah?Enemies or lovers right now?He sighed and kissed my head. Both, well always be both.”

“Today I gave you an hour. A year ago I would have given you an eternity.”

“Tex?” I whispered.“Yeah?”“Enemies or lovers right now?”He sighed and kissed my head. “Both, we’ll always be both.”

“In the end… he would choose Campisi.In the end… she would choose Abandonato.In the end… there would be bloodshed.”

“Stop fighting me!" he said, trying to pull on the arm he held.He was in a precarious position himself, straddling the rail as he tried to lean over far enough to get me and actually hold onto me.Le...”

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine...”

“Why is it that blood, rather than peace, sells?”

“It's a fact that people are afraid of what they don't understand. And most are too lazy or ignorant to find out more.”

“William: My brother has an appreciation of art, so I imagine the woman he chooses must be beautiful beyond the pale. Once he outgrows his current predilection with painting and accepts his family r...”

“But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.”

“Let an eagle's stance in life be your stance too: Noble and powerful!”