“Worse, she already knew that there were bitter people devoted to the morbid ideal of the presutural cannibalism of appeasement that they defined as peace”
“Blank-slate friendships were thin and temperamental. She knew that. There was no history there to cement people together, for better or worse.”
“Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.”
“If men were reduced to sacrificing other men to appease the darkness, the Dark god's reign had already begun.”
“In olden days people were worse than us but knew much more than us.”
“Damn real live people, getting in the way of peaceful ideals.”