“Then, together, they passed through the camp gate and marched up the road, toward wives and sweethearts and children and Mom and Dad and home.”

“Mom, camping is not a date; it's an endurance test. If you can survive camping with someone, you should marry them on the way home.”

“When mom and dad went to war the only prisoners they took were the children”

“The Men of the Ordeal do not march to save the World, Proyas--at least not first and foremost. They march to save their wives and children. Their tribes and their nations. If they learn that the world, their world, slips into ruin behind them, that their wives and daughters may perish for want of their shields, their swords, the Host of Hosts would melt about the edges, then collapse.”

“That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.”

“The Screamingflashed me back to a timewhen mom and dad were still togetherif you could call miles apart together.”