“You may return and tell Sun Quan to wash his neck: the executioner is coming.”

“On and on the Great River rolls, racing east.Of proud and gallant heros its white-tops leave no trace,As right and wrong, pride and fall at once unrealYet ever the green hill stayTo blaze in the west-waning day...”

“The world under heaven, after a long period of division, tends to unite; after a long period of union, tends to divide. This has been so since antiquity. ”

“It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.”

“His mouth dips into that freckle on my neck. Thank you, sun. Thank you, thank you, sun.”

“You may come back as soon as your senses have returned.”

“I am the executioner. When the crime is committed and the Lord God does not take vengeance nor does the exalted State move to declare and then to punish, I say when these bitter events happen, then comes the time for the executioner to declare himself or herself as the case may be. I have waited long enough. So the time has come, and I declare myself the executioner. The three criminals are hereby sentenced to death. By fire. By earth. By water.”