“Society indeed conspires to keep you ball and chained.”
“There is a darkness in you. In all of us, probably. Beasts we keep chained. Ordinary men have to keep the chains strong, for if we let the beast loose then society will turn upon us with fiery vengeance. Kings though...well, who is there to turn upon them? So the chains are made of straw. It is the curse of kings, Helikaon, that they can become monsters. And they invariably do.”
“The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.”
“The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can't see the ball.”
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound.”
“Mercy is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”