“Sometimes fear made you angry. Perhaps after years anger cooled, like a sword taken from a forge. Perhaps in the end you were left with something very cold and very sharp.”
“Malevolence is born of negative feelings like loneliness and sadness and anger. It comes from an emptiness inside you that feels as if it's been carved out with a knife, an emptiness you're left with when something very important has been taken away from you”
“Fear made you cold. It made you tremble. Anger made you hot. It made you want to hurt someone.”
“So, how do you kill a dragon? (Channon)With a very sharp sword. (Sebastian)”
“An edge of a sword is made as much from the steel taken away as the steel that is left”
“You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.”