“I had forgotten about the sword in all of the excitement of almost burning alive.”
“I want to burn with excitement or anger and bleed, bleed out my words. I want to get all fucked up and write raw and ugly about all these things I see and am and could be.”
“In truth I had forgotten all about Arthur and our reason for coming to Benowyc in the first place.”
“How long have you been away from the country?" Laruja asked Ibarra."Almost seven years.""Then you have probably forgotten all about it.""Quite the contrary. Even if my country does seem to have forgotten me, I have always thought about it.”
“A man with a sword has a means to stay alive. A man with a named sword has a reason to stay alive.”
“I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten--death.”