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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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