Love is the strongest emotion any creature can feel except for hate, but hate can't hurt you. Love, and trust, and friendship, and all the other emotions humans value so much, are the only emotions that can bring pain. Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.

Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.

You have no sense of what war is like. You have no idea what it means to see those you love fall. You cannot possibly understand what it is to fight for what you believe, and how sometimes you have to fight with words and dreams after all the weapons have been put away. You serve a cold god, surviving on his power for thousands of years without ever living!

Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live." (Page 79.)

Some people use things; they destroy. You're a creator, a builder.

I'm standing in a slaughterhouse where the cattle are begging to become hamburgers. I have a right to be jumpy.

Sacrifice of live, sacrifice for love. Fate is gentle and harsh; she gives and she takes.