“I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it.”

“I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.”

“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”

“And now O kings, be ye wise. Be admonished, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son lest He grow angry, and ye perish in the way for His wrath may quickly kindle.”

“Giving up is what kills people.”

“Resignation is what kills people. Once they've rejected resignation, humans gain the privilege of making humanity their footpath.”

“The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.”