Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

But love like that doesn't just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there is always a little love left, underneath. Yes. Horrible, isn't it?

It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.