There are so many ways to be brave in this world. Sometimes it involves giving up everything you have ever known, or everyone you have ever loved for the sake of something greater.

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Sometimes drastic change requires drastic measures.

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To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoing—the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.

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My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.

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Some people will always fear change. But we can't indulge them.

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Human reason can excuse any evil; that is why it's so important that we don't rely on it.

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The fire, the fire. It rages within, a campfire and then an inferno, and my body is its fuel. I feel it racing through me, eating away at the weight. There is nothing that can kill me now; I am powerful and invincible and eternal.

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You know, there's a word for big, strong men who attack women, and it's coward.

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I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

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I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

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