“What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?”

“No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.”

“I, on the other hand, felt as I always have, like I were water seeping from a broken pot; I existed but had no form to hold me in place.”

“Life as we know it is our perception of reality.”

“When you choose to look down on something, you render yourself incapable of understanding it.”

“Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored.”

“Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!”

“As long as one sees faults with the world, he prevails in the knowledge of the senses. The inner purification has not yet occurred in him.”

“On what basis does the world continue to exist? It is due to the fault of apratikraman' (the mistake for which pratikraman was not done).”

“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”

“I loved him.I couldn't pinpoint what made me so certain, but I knew it then, as surely as I knew my name or the color of the sky or any fact written in a book.Could he feel it, too?Maxon broke the ...”

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”