“Revenge was sweet, but blood was sweeter.”

“Is our blood not the same color? Do we not bleed the same or share each other's burdens? ... What makes you and I so different, Ayden?”

“We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law.”

“I wish for today and dream of yesterday. If the gods should hold me in their favor, then I shall hope for tomorrow.”

“I had no tears to shed nor a prayer for the deceased... There is no hope for the hopeless.”

“We only dream of things we know and people that we've seen... War and pain is all I know, it is all I can ever see.”

“Today is yesterday's victory, yesterday is tomorrow's conquest, and tomorrow is today's war. Though I face death, I am not fearsome.”