“Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I?”

“I should have fought for you, Clara, even if I would have had to fight you to fight for you. I should have never let you go.”

“I never had anything before this all started. I've lived in No-Man's-Land for thirty years.”

“Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I don’t get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian)Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon)”

“All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my cousins and my uncles. A girl child ain't safe in a family of men. But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house. She let out her breath. I loves Harpo, she say. God knows I do. But I'll kill him dead before I let him beat me.”

“Mankind has had ten-thousand years of experience at fighting and if we must fight, we have no excuse for not fighting well.”