“Dont be afraid, he says with a half smile. Youre with me. His hand tightens around my wrist, tugging me down again playfully. And this time, I feel safe enough to take a deep breath of my own and d...”

“If Ive learned anything from my past and my present, its the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don...”

“Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the surface, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.”

“You think me cruel.No. Magiano hesitates for a long moment. Maybe a little.Im not branding them because I am cruel, I say calmly. Im doing it as a reminder of what theyve done to us. To the marked....”

“To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.”

“You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”

“I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.”

“It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.”

“When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.”