“Sometimes I feel the need of an avalanche within me.”

“There's a purity to the struggle to reach a peak. You leave your world behind and take only what you need. For a creature like me there is nothing closer to redemption.”

“For the longest time I studied revenge to the exclusion of all else. I built my first torture chamber in the dark vaults of imagination. Lying on bloody sheets in the Healing Hall I discovered doors within my mind that I’d not found before, doors that even a child of nine knows should not be opened. Doors that never close again. I threw them wide.”

“I wanted to go home and if Hell rose up to stop me, it would make me desire it more.”

“Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity's heart.”

“And what makes us human is that sometimes we snap. And in that moment of release we're closer to gods than we know.”

“Tell me, tutor,' I said. 'Is revenge a science, or an art?”