“Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die.”

“A battlefield; the canvas. The paint; blood. The brush; your sword. The painter; you.”

“If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera," he would say again and again”

“Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.”

“You keep seeking to redeem me. You keep looking and hoping. Painting me in emotions I do not have, nor can have.”

“You painted all those characters into the paintings all over the school, and every one of them is a portrait of you, but in disguise. That’s how you’ve been watching us. You spread yourself out through all those paintings. And since you are the original artist, nobody else can ever destroy the portraits. It was your way of assuring you could always keep an eye on things, even after death.”