“No one is born a monster. But I wish some people were. It would make it easier to hate them, to kill them, to forget their dead faces.”

“In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”

“She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.”

“I must freeze my heart to the one person who insists on setting it ablaze.”

“Attend to your own fate.”

“Words can lie. See beyond them.”

“They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.”

“As you enter, you pray to leave. As you leave, you pray to never return.”

“I'm afraid of failing. I'm afraid of letting this opportunity pass us by. And I'm afraid of what happens if nothing in this world ever changes.”

“I do not fear pain.”

“Risk is part of the game.”