“Memories always kill nightmares.”

“First there is nightmare. Then come the memories. Now she must hunt'.”

“It only took one imperfection. One. Then laughs would turn into screams [...]. People would turn into memories and memories into nightmares.”

“It was male, of course; menace is always male. ("Nightmare")”

“I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.”

“All the beasts of Hell knew they couldn't stop me. I was the archangel Gabriel, the Preliator, and they knew that no matter how many times they killed, I always came back to kill them. No matter how much they frightened me, I remembered what Cadan had told me about the stories of me he had grown up hearing. Even demons feared something. The demonic reapers had nightmares of their own, stories they told one another to terrify, a legend that haunted them in their sleep. That was me. I was Hell's nightmare.”