You see the world as fixed and finite, and it is not. It is liquid and ever moving, and one act can change everything.

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.

Honor, obey?" Gisbourne shouted, grappling with John. "This is what you call being a good wife?"
I stopped. "I never said I'd be a good wife, Guy. Just that I'd marry you.

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change.

An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.