“I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?I dont know.And I dont know how to make it stop.”

“I do not fear pain.”

“No heart can be truly understood. Not even your own.”

“I'm starting to think you like prisons," "And that you have the worst taste in men.”

“No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”

“While we are together, I will never suffer a prison again.”

“So Lightning says to Mud,What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you aint lifting my grass skirtUnt...”

“At that instant a dazzling claw of lightning streaked down the length of the sky. The hedge and the distant trees seemed to leap forward in the brilliance of the flash. Immediately upon it came the...”

“Electricity is really just organized lightning.”

“...Nature has its unexpected and unappreciated mercies.”

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when its dark”

“She kissed their knife marred bodies, for every act of war has, at its heart, an act of mercy.”