“I got a body covered in scars, but then who doesnt? If you dont have a few scars, you havent really lived.”

“What are you saying?I want to try.He wanted clarification on that. You want to try what?There it was, that deep flush. You know.Yes, he knew, but he wasnt going to let her off the hook so easily. S...”

“Why do you think there arent rules to how sex will work? You didnt want to talk to me about what you wanted. You pushed me into the room so I wouldnt turn on the light because you knew damn well I ...”

“Punishment? You dont have any right to punish me. And I can curse. I choose not to most of the time, but dont think it doesnt go through my head, asshole. I was trying to give you something. I was ...”

“I dont think I like the idea that you just control me, but you get to do anything you like.Ah, but thats because you dont understand the power exchange. Note that I used the word exchange. Listen, ...”

“Maybe she should stop reading those damn romance novels. They were giving her crazy expectations.”

“The life of my people is to remember forever; each head granary is full. The life of your people is to forget: your thing granaries ("museums"), and not yourselves, are full.”

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“The living sinners on deadly ground.”

“My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.”

“Scars speak for you. They say you're strong, and you've survived something that might have killed others.”

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”