“I learned very early in life that I was always going to need people more than they needed me.”

“You undo me, Merit. Wholly and completely. You don't take me at my word. You challenge me at every opportunity. And that means when I'm with you, I am less than the head of this House...and I am more than the head of this House. I am a man." He stroked my cheeks with his thumbs. "In my very, very long life, I need you more than I have ever needed anything.”

“The world will always have people who have more than they'll ever need and people who need more than they'll ever have.”

“I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, 'Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.”

“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.”

“You need me, Kane. Maybe even more than I need you.”