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.

Some nights, one wants to tell beloveds everything that's been waiting to be said. Some nights, a man needs flesh and blood and warm breath and a loving heart.

No ethos, pursued without thought or mercy, is ethical.

I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.