Caleb

“Because people should not be punished for loving and hoping and holding their hearts open.”
― Damon Suede, Hot Head

“You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.”
― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay

“You did not bring down two of the royal guard in an unceremonious heap because the woman in the middle tripped.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Kiss of Shadows

“What is that old children’s rhyme, ‘Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’? Anyone who says that doesn’t understand the power of words. They can cut deeper than any knife, hit harder than any fist, touch parts of you that nothing physical will ever reach, and the wounds that some words leave never heal, because each time the word is thrown at you, labeled on you, you bleed afresh from it. It’s more like a whip that cuts every time, until you feel it must flay the very skin from your bones, and yet outwardly there is no wound to show the world, so they think you are not hurt, when inside part of you dies every time.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, A Shiver of Light