“Watching my father plan and strategize for the resistance has taught me about trust. She leaned forward. Personal trust is very different from political trust, my lady. The first thrives on faith. ...”

“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....”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“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.”