“And Kushiel sends no punishment that we are not fit to bear.”

“I know what you are. I've always known from the beginning, Kushiel's Chosen. It is folly, to make claim on one whom the gods have marked for their own. And unlike the others, I am no fool, to grasp at that which burns to the touch. What you have given..." she raised one hand, palm upward, the garnet seal dangling at her wrist, "... I hold in an open hand.”

“Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.”

“We are alike, Joscelin and I, in that what we do, we do very well.”

“We pay for sins we do not remember, and seek to do a will we can scarce fathom. That is what it is, to be a god's chosen. ”

“We speak of stories ending, when in truth it is we who end. The stories go on and on.”

“Alas for we who are mortal, and are denied the luxury of dramatic license. We mus live, and go onward.”