I want to stand beside you. I want to learn to fight with you. I won’t accept you as a protector. But I will accept you as something else. Something far greater. Because with whatever scraps of my heart are left, I love you...

Perhaps it was only this, the things that I could change for the future, helping to create a day when more people would live than die. Maybe that’s all I could ever do. Maybe it was enough.

I am a daughter of the desert, and my feet will never fail me.

It seems a precious thing, for someone to know the very worst part of you and love you anyway.

He were handsome, God knows that. All soft wet-wheat hair, eyes that were gray blue like the English Channel, and a jaw that were strong enough to take a few punches.

Rob tended to see the bit of bright in all of us.

There is a difference between peace and submission.

He taught me so much about strength and power. That the man who is truly powerful has the option to forgive, to pardon, to forgo vengeance and violence. It’s the weak man that must prove himself such.

I’ve heard this is what you do,′ he said. ‘Stealing to feed people.’ His head went to the side. ‘It’s so... strange.

I think life becomes a fabric of choices, interwoven, all related... I split my life into these two things, thief and lady.