“Priests were metal-reinforced overshoes. They saved your soles. This is an Assassin joke.”

“War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, the lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.”

“The sole way to save oneself is to save others. Or to struggle to save others -even that is sufficient.”

“Tattooists are the new priests for the fucked-up and the thrown away. They speak the language of symbol, and administer penance in tiny metallic lashes.”

“Not saving you from this storm, mutant,” he said. “Saving you for your later fate, we are.”His voice was weirdly inflected and metallic, like an automated answering machine.“Oh, good. Yoda captured us,” Fang whispered.”

“You almost got hit by a truck because you were checking me out?" I joked and he laughed loudly."Yeah. Good thing you saved me. It would have been your fault if I didn't make it," he said through a grin.”