“They don't know the meaning of danger or fear or pain. It's only their pride that can be truly hurt.”

“I am the shadow of the flame.”

“You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.”

“Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”

“The war never leaves.”

“For their lives, for their children's lives, they will give up what little freedom they had left.”

“We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.”

“Advice," Doa Vorchenza chuckled. "Advice. The years play a sort of alchemical trick, transmuting one's mutterings to a state of respectability. Give advice at forty and you're a nag. Give it at sev...”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”