“This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.”

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

“Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.”

“How do you want to die, Admiral? We are D'Angeline. At the hand of numbers, or dreams?”

“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.”

“We are all these things [...]. Pride, desire, compassion, cleverness, belligerence, fruitfulness, loyalty...and guilt. But above it all stands love. And if we desire to be more than human, that is the star by which we must set our sights. ”