“You must forge your own path for it to mean anything.”

“You do the easy thing, the appealing thing, the peaceful thing, mostly it turns sour in the end. But if you take the hard path - ah, that's how you reap the sweet rewards. Duty. Sacrifice. They mean something.”

“If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.”

“You began your journey here as a pup. Now you must find your way back. A new quest, a new start.”

“Don’t judge someone until you’ve stood at his forge and worked with his hammer, eh?”

“The forge looked like a steam-powered locomotive had smashed into the Greek Parthenon and they had fused together.”

“I looked at Rachel. "You're not going to do anything stupid, are you? I mean....you talked to Chiron, right?"She managed a faint smile. "You're worried about me doing something stupid?”