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

“I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone.”

“Our eyes met. We had so very many shared memories between us, Bao and I. Some were wonderous, and some were terrible. Some were both.”

“Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”

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

“Those that yield are not always weak”

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