“Peace is more than the absence of war. Peace is accord. Harmony.”

“There was no more happiness. But under the misery, there was hope.That the name brimstone had given her was more than a whim.That this was not the end.”

“You really think joy is easier to come by than pain? What have you had more of?”

“Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it's too late?”

“She didn't need a Taser; she was more than capable of defending herself without electricity. She'd had an unusual education.”

“A bruxis. That was the one wish more powerful than a gavriel, and its trade value was singular: The only way to purchase one was with one’s own teeth. All of them, self-extracted.”

“Karou saw them with her human eyes, this army she had rendered more monstrous than ever nature had, and she knew what the world would see in them if they flew to fight the Dominion: demons, nightmares, evil. The sight of the seraphim would be heralded as a miracle. But chimaera? The apocalypse.”