Never underestimate the potential for human stupidity when wealth and power are at stake.

My dear dead mother wanted me to go into an honorable trade, like grave robbing. Would I listen? No. Be an assassin, like your uncle Gustav, she said. Would I pay heed? No. Apprentice to the Necromancer―

The past can be a terrible weight bound to you by an unbreakable chain. You can drag it with you, forever looking over your shoulder at what holds you back. Or you can let it go and move forward. It’s your choice.

I know you'll think this odd, but I find it strangely exhilarating not knowing what's coming next.

Dolgan: ’Tis a wise thing to know what is wanted, and wiser still to know when ‘tis achieved. Rhuagh: True. And still wiser to know when it is unachievable, for then striving is folly.

You can only have one first born child. You may love all your children deeply and with passion, but there is something unique about the first born.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.