“If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.”

“Would you prefer to die and become one of us, or become one of us and then die...? Take your pick.”

“True. The one certainty about riding, Braygan, is that - at some time - you will fall off. It is a fact. Another fact you might like to consider, in your life of perpetual terror, is that you will die. We are all going to die, some of us young, some of us old, some of us in our sleep, some of us screaming in agony. We cannot stop it, we can only delay it.”

“If you prick us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?”

“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”

“Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.”