“Being strong is not the same as being a strong being. I should know because cowardice runs in my family, as I always run from my fears.”

“We’re not that strong anymore. (Hades)Oops, guess I screwed up. Inability to see the consequences of our thoughtless acts must run in the family. So much for my father being a god of prophecy, huh? (Stryker)”

“As a jealous man, I suffer four times over: because I am jealous, because I blame myself for being so, because I fear that my jealousy will wound the other, because I allow myself to be subject to a banality: I suffer from being excluded, from being aggressive, from being crazy, and from being common.”

“But then I had long mistaken being spoiled for being strong, being defiant for being independent, being reckless for being brave.”

“Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enough to accept it, I was being offered a second history.”

“My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.”