Is there ever a good reason for rape?
If you let yourself be affected by every death, you’d never save a life.
If time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.
If the Scottish rebellion can be plotted in a French brothel, then perhaps it can be stopped at the French Court.
I’ve never been very good at saying goodbye, but that’s the hell of it, isn’t it? Whether you want to say goodbye or not, they’re gone, and you have to go on living without them. Because that’s what they would want.
I believe that ghosts only exist when there is something to be remembered, a story worth telling, or a message worth relaying.
Home is where the heart is, but it’s also the place where it can be broken.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
By blood and by choice, we make our ghosts. We haunt ourselves.
A nation without a flag is like a furnace without a fire.
A marriage is made not in ritual, nor in words, but in the living of it every day, whether you’re together or apart.[to Rachel]
