Everything means nothing that is the only truth.

Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.

Time is the enemy of identity

I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!

What the local politicians actually meant was that they hoped to claim the land in the name of the public and then make the usual profits privatizing it. There was a principle at stake. They had to ensure their friends and not outsiders got the benefit.

And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon those three lies was Elric's destiny to be built, for it is only about things which concern us most profoundly that we lie clearly and with profound conviction.

The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.