“Plants, animals, men, angels, then God. Difference between men and angels is that men are stuck in a body. They feel pain, hunger, and thirst...But me and you, we don't have to feel them things...We can turn off the human condition.So maybe we're closer to the angels, you know? Creatures of the mind. A higher morality.The machine takes us deeper into our souls. That far inside, we're capable of anything. Way beyond right or wrong.”
“We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels.”
“Body or mind, heart or soul, we're all human, and we're supposed to feel pain. You cut yourself off from it at your own risk.”
“I have come to discover men are such prideful creatures.""And we're not?""Of course we are. But we are more capable of bending. Men tend to break.”
“Men are not angels,” Akhmar affirmed. “And so men have the chance to be noble, in a way that angels cannot.”
“The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God.”