“Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.”

“We're not very different from one another, not different at all in fact. We're all just people with the same needs, the same desires, the same feelings. It's a lie about us being different.”

“We're all under the same sky and walk the same earth; we're alive together during the same moment.”

“Raoden looked up at his friend. "We're not dead, Galladon, and we're not damned. We're just unfinished.”

“You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse.”

“We're here, the glow of 1804 will say in one and a half centuries. We're here, and we're alive.”