He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.

The secret cause of all suffering is mortality itself, which is the prime condition of life. It cannot be denied if life is to be affirmed.

We feel most alive when we are closest to death.

We're all hunters in my family, you know. Deer, ducks…damsels.

Don't tell me it's going to fucking be okay! I am not okay with being that fucker's pinata!

The villains were always ugly in books and movies. Necessarily so, it seemed. Because if they were attractive—if their looks matched their charm and their cunning—they wouldn't only be dangerous.

They would be irresistible.