Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.

He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.

The Fates are here because of supernal anger, celestial imbalance, and arrogance of men and gods that must be curbed.

As Seth's apprentice, I've learned wisdom of which you've never dreamed.

Here and now was always where Tempus was, not off somewhere in the realm of Greater Good or Mortal Soul or Eternal Consequence. He'd lost the ability to determine greater good, if there was one; his mortal soul he'd given up on long ago. And as for eternal consequence - he was its embodiment.