“Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. ”

“Do you think we're getting back together?""Getting? No," Mace answered then continued,"Back together? Yes”

“Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.”

“ It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful…”

“Don’t matter who you love, son,” he said. “As long as you do it well.”

“There is not a man in the world who is worth your dignity. Do not confuse self-sacrifice with love.”