If soot stains your tunic, dye it black. This is vengeance.

Something ... made him feel small, not in the way of orphans or beggars or children, but in a good way. In the way of souls.

Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.

To be ignorant and to be deceived are two different things. To be ignorant is to be a slave of the world. To be deceived is to be the slave of another man. The question will always be: Why, when all men are ignorant, and therefore already slaves, does this latter slavery sting us so?

The world is only as deep as we can see. This is why fools think themselves profound. This is why terror is the passion of revelation.

What if the choice isn’t between certainties, between this faith and that, but between faith and doubt? Between renouncing the mystery and embracing it?

There was such a difference, he thought, between the beauty that illuminated, and the beauty that was illuminated.