“There are no heroes...in life, the monsters win.”

“But a voice inside her whispered, There are no heroes, and she remembered what Lord Petyr had said to her, here in this very hall. 'Life is not a song, sweetling,' he'd told her, 'You may learn that one day to your sorrow.' In life, the monsters win, she told herself.”

“The monster does not need the hero. it is the hero who needs him for his very existence. When the hero confronts the monster, he has yet neither power nor knowledge, the monster is his secret father who will invest him with a power and knowledge that can belong to one man only, and that only the monster can give.”

“We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.~Lew Fonesca ”

“Wherever we find monsters, there, too, we also find heroes.”

“Death smoothes the rough edges, obliterates the cruelties of the deceased. It makes heroes of monsters.”