So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

Every time we tell a lie, the thing we fear grows stronger.

Whatever my ancestors did to you, none of them consulted me.

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Has everyone gone mad?” “Everyone was mad already, my lady,” Cadrach said with a strange, sorrowful smile. “It is merely that the times have brought it out in them.