Maybe when you were born on the top of the mountain you could pretend the mountain didn't matter, but those who climbed it and those born at its base who could never climb at all knew differently.

The intuition that had kept Kylar from Vi even from the first time she'd tried to seduce him at the Drake estate suddenly crystallized: You don't share your life with a woman's body, you share your life with a woman.

Let me make this real simple. You will not break me. The hole will not break me. I will not break. I will not be broken.

It's better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die

My question is, do you believe in an evil possessed of its own purity? or does every act intend some good?

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.

A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you're going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you're going to have to retire.