“Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.”
“You must never leave me Sweetness. I will never leave you.”
“Tell me. Tell me why you think you're leaving me again. Because you're not, you know. You're not leaving without me”
“and that leaves me. And that leaves you.”
“—leave me," Japhrimel snarled. "You will not leave me to wander the earth alone—breathe, damn you, breathe!”
“Keep me rather in this cage, and feed me sparingly, if you dare. Anything that brings me closer to illness and the edge of death makes me more faithful. It is only when you make me suffer that I feel safe and secure. You should never have agreed to be a god for me if you were afraid to assume the duties of a god, and we know that they are not as tender as all that. You have already seen me cry. Now you must learn to relish my tears.”