“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.”

“Beauty,’ Brimstone had scoffed once. ‘Humans are fools for it. As helpless as moths who hurl themselves at fire.”

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

“Daughter of my heart,' was the message Brimstone sent just for Karou. She wanted to cry again right here in the court, thinking of it. 'Twice-daughter, my joy. Your dream is my dream, and your name is true. You are all of our hope.”

“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.”

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

“Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.”