"We lay there with our bodies touching, and as I shook, a powerful knowledge took hold. He had done this thing to me and I had lived. That was all. I was still breathing. I heard his heart. I smelled h..."
- Alice Sebold
"The climber, like a fox which is hard-pressed, should always have one more trick in his bag."
- Whipplesnaith
"Do I think it was inherent nobility that brought us out here?” He shook his head. “Maybe. I don’t call it nobility, though. I think it’s our innate human need to champion the underdog. We are constant..."
- Cassandra Davis
"Never diagnosed the enemy before."
- Henry V. O'Neil
"It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident."
"You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death."
"I do care. That's why I hunt them. But if you've seen what I have, then you learn to deal with the murders and disappearances. You learn to push it aside and move on. The other life isn't here anymore..."
- Susanne Winnacker
"I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar ..."
- Chris Cleave