
What sins I commit, I commit them in the open.

I think it sometimes takes me a while, but I end up making good decisions at some point. Pretty much when I have exhausted all other options.

Make that cage golden, it's still a fucking cage."
"Wel , in the absence of other options, gold will have to do.

History is nothing but good people dying for the wrong reasons.
(Graukar)

He could sense Kshar underneath, and he knew he'd be able to sense him in whatever body. Unchanged, genuinely him.

"There is only one thing I want to be part of. You."

You learn the wisest lessons from your enemy. If you live.

You're seriously in love, you know that? It's a great feeling, unless it hurts like a bitch.

I want to learn his body, find every pleasure it's hiding. All this reverence and simple awe I feel when I touch him, feel his breath brush my skin.

You make me forget who I'm not.

I don't want to be one of many stations you pass through." Paused, "I want to be the central station." He fell silent.

Lately, the thought of tomorrow is like the thought of a hundred years into the future. Who can imagine that Germany will still exist?

All men die, Kendras. Better get used to it. And then fight until the end, with every breath, every heartbeat, every single, last thought.

You're better than the mountains, you know. Murmured against Vadim's lips.

In the end, this armor is my skin. If it is damaged, I am damaged.

Love can be like a commanding officer. It's unfair, random, cruel, but it gets you through the war, somehow, gets you where you have to be. (Vadim)

Our scars tell our suffering, not our weakness.
(Graukar)

I'd meant to seduce him into my bed but he seduced me into his life.

Once you know what you want, you can make the rest happen

He told it as he saw it. His way of lying was to remain silent.

Lion has his claws already sharpened and is ready to go.

Men kill you, but women eviscerate you first.

No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.

You seem to be the one for firsts," his breath caught, "and lasts and always.

He understood it then. The potential, the utter, unbelievable freedom to be whoever existed underneath his skin.

It was easier being strong when another man was strong enough to be weak.

I try not to think of the future. What we have now is good. Any mlre of this is just a bonus. (Sergei)

You'd be the first enemy that ever got shaved by Spetsnaz, and not in the way we mean 'shaving'." As in, cut throat.
"Hoo-fucking-ray.

Love as inevitable as death.

You ... ." just you, always you. My russian Cu**, my enemy, my comrade, my prisoner, my gaoler and my life. Words unthinking. "Love ... ... you.

It's really rather simple.' Dan took the refilled glass, 'I love Vadim.

Train as if you had to bring the horse down, not the rider. Fight bulls, not men, and men won't best you.

I like men with weaknesses, his father had said. I can buy them. Men without weaknesses I have to kill.

I sit, smoking, my head against the cool comfort of the fighter plane's wheel, its wing shielding but never embracing me. I'm a cold nestling tonight.

To take the measure of a man, watch not how he treats his friends, watch how he treats a conquered foe.

You're my home. I will find you.

Arousal is a fairly complex thing. Many people masturabate when they're bored, not because they're aroused. (Dima)