“Greet the sky and live, blossom!... Yet even as the wind stirs your petals, flowers fall. My flowers are eternal, my songs live forever. I lift them in offering; I, a singer. I cast them to the wind, I spill them. The flowers become gold, they come to dwell inside the palace of eternity.”

“There are those who do not hold that there is any innate goodness to mankind. To them I say, had you lived my life, you would not believe it. I have known the depths to which mortals are capable of descending, and I have seen the heights. I have seen how kindness and compassion may grow in the unlikeliest of places, as the mountain flower forces its way through the stern rock.”

“Well, I was living it, but a shared dream half-lived is a hollow thing”

“Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours?”

“If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.”

“I had begun to think my ripening body would wither untasted on the vine.”

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”