“While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value.”

“If we truly detach from our childhood and abandon our inherent romanticism, then we shred any bit of humanity left in us.”

“Woe is the mind of the common man, so easily controlled by the prospect of an ambition never to be truly attained. This is what tyrants live on and by what commoners are blissfully burdened and subdued.”

“it's through the simple things in life, through its games, when our minds mature the most and we grow knowledgeable. It's also when the cloth masks of our outer, false personalities are torn asunder, and we are able to see every last blemish of a man's genuine character that they hide beneath... no matter how dark or obscene it may be.”

“the illusion that power lies within the hands of the common man is more important than legitimate efficiency within the government.”

“The dominoes of fate are falling down as we are speaking, and Ferriar knows what will happen when the last one crashes down.”

“The festive music died down and the granite pillars were replaced with rotted wooden beams as he continued down the alleyways. The scent of fresh flowers turned to mold, and the colorful mosiacs of honor and nobility were nonexistent. Run-down tenements were shadowed by its surrounding buildings, as if the capital itself wanted to conceal its existence.”