When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others

It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

I love you still, but with your death I succumbed to a kind of infatuation. I convinced myself that what you and I had, so very briefly, was of far vaster and deeper import than it truly was. Of all the weapons we chose to turn upon ourselves, guilt is the sharpest, Silverfox. It can carve one's own past into unrecognizable shapes, false memories leading to beliefs that sow all kinds of obsessions.

Show me a god that does not demand mortal suffering. Show me a god that celebrates diversity, a celebration that embraces even non-believers, and is not threatened by them. Show me a god that understands the meaning of peace. In life, not in death.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.