Stay alive long enough, and there’s nowhere you can go that isn’t haunted.
Sometimes the hardest things in life are the things most worth doing.
Sometimes in life we have to do things we do not wish to do.
Some very bad things live a very long time.
Some of us get to have the family life and some of us get to protect it.
Sitting here, all these years, nursing my offended dignity, writing books of history people prefer to forget. I never asked anything of myself at all. I haven’t been living. I’ve been waiting to die.
Risking your life to prevent a world war is one thing. Risking it to save mine was never part of the deal.
Perhaps this life was not my true life, this world was not my true home. But she was.[about Kohana]
Peer pressure is hard, but living with regret is harder.
Only death may pay for life.
One woman can make you fly like an eagle, another can give you the strength of a lion, but only one in the cycle of life can fill your heart with wonder and the wisdom that you have known a singular joy.
My life’s been a circle of violence and degradation long as I can remember. I’m ready to tie it off.
