“Rachelle choked on a laugh. You were always stronger.You, said Amlie, were always foolish enough to think that mattered.”

“Do you think he would dare half as much for your love as I have?No, she said. He never could. Thats why I love him.You were desperate for me.Desperate. Not happy. For the first time in all the year...”

“If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?”

“I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.”

“The problem with martyrs is that theyre all dead. What do they have to do with us that are simple enough to still be alive? Should we just give up and want to die because death is better than disho...”

“The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.”

“Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything.”

“Peace is a precious and a desirable thing. Our generation, bloodied in wars, certainly deserves peace. But peace, like almost all things of this world, has its price, a high but a measurable one. W...”

“...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.”

“There are perhaps many causes worth dying for, but to me, certainly, there are none worth killing for.”

“But the old man would not so, but slew his son,And half the seed of Europe, one by one.”

“Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.”

“Every war has its martyrs the unsung heroes who sometimes dont even know the rationale behind the war they are fighting. They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to and d...”

“The agony of martyrdom is almost too much to bear. In the early hours, when the loss is fresh, there is no comfort in knowing Glory will live on. We speak of the martyrs in History but we cannot kn...”

“Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.”