“I know that love is about power, too. Who gives, who takes. Who is willing to risk showing their true self.”

“There was a saying that the strength of a mans steel was only known under the hammer of circumstance. If anyone had asked me a few hours ago, I would have said that nearly five years of boyhood had...”

“Men were always quick to believe in the madness of women.”

“You have forced your way into my Hua, Eona. Change me. First, by your power- then, just by who you are.”

“And you are the girl's bitch, forever.”

“He gave me a message for you. She tightened her lips as if the words soured her mouth.What is it?That you are in his blood.I looked down at the deck to hide the answering surge within my own blood....”

“Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”

“Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.”

“Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“And an unaware witch means a witch who doesn't know she's a witch, and because she's a women that makes her double trouble. Never trust a women." My mothers a women," I said, suddenly feeling a lit...”