“For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.”

“Deliver me, Tyler, from being perfect and complete.”

“ShanTu said that we must set the soul free from the body and its lusts. Having thus got rid of the foolishness of the flesh, we shall be pure. While an admirable goal, the sisterhood has not found this practical. For whatever purpose, body and soul are joined. Denying one's bodily lusts is about as effective as prohibition, which is to say not effective at all.”

“Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.”

“Deliver me from Swedish furniture. Deliver me from clever art. May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.”

“You could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred.”