“Only learning oneself better, and understanding one’s place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.”

“It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”

“The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.”

“You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.”

“Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?”

“It had not been all suffering and horror. Life is never only one thing.”

“The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill.”