The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

He regarded marriage as an arbitrary and essentially adversarial relationship, akin to the yoking of prisoners on the chain gang.

Who’d win in a fight of love? A shark in the desert, or an eagle in the ocean? My money’s on the stripper’s ass.

When you get to know them, most professional fighters are big teddy bears. I say that having been beat up by a few stuffed animals.

What did you think was going to ensue when you chose Hagan's big ass to train me? That guy is wicked fierce and a total badass.

The silence is the worst part of any fight, because it's made up of all the things we wish we could say, if only we had the guts.

I’ve often been told I fight like a girl, probably because from the moment I whip off my bra, my opponent knows I mean business.

The next time somebody announces that he plans to get Medieval on your ass, tell him you're going to get Renaissance on his gonads.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.

Do not fight with your brother. There are things that God expects us to fight for, true. But string is not one of them. Do you understand?

At this point, none of us are sure why we fight. We’re sisters. We need no good reason to fight, even though we have plenty of them.