"But come! Let us cast aside titles and pretense, and reveal our true faces to one another! I am Hades! He who shall awaken our brethren from their dark slumber! Show me your "vaunted" strength. And I shall expose the lie of your fragmented existance!"

"Even now, I do not believe your tale. I would not suffer us to walk such a wretched path. Still, if it must be said... Do not squander it. The legacy I leave you."

"Alas, it is not your grand scheme that will succeed, but ours."

"Really. I have no need of deception─and even if I did, I assure you: you would find it quite indistinguishable from the truth."

""There is no hope! We are finished! Mankind is finished!" Ahhh, the irony. What Vauthry achieved through bliss, you will achieve through despair. But I have overstayed my welcome. I shall look forward to seeing you bring the world to its knees, hero."

"So come. Shed your preconceptions. See beyond the unscrupulous villains you take us for."

"The hour is at hand! Behold but a sliver of my god's power! And from the deepest pit of the seven hells to the very pinnacle of the heavens, the world shall tremble! Unleash Ultima!"

"I should be the one to sigh."

"You've committed the cardinal sin of boring me. And so I retire to the shade."

"You think it unfair that you are subject to suffering? That your lives will be sacrificed for the ancients? Look at me! I have lived a thousand thousand of your lives! I have broken bread with you, fought with you, grown ill, grown old! Sired children and yes, welcomed death's sweet embrace. For eons have I measured your worth and found you wanting! Too weak and feeble-minded to serve as stewards of any star!"

"And so, as a show of respect to the last of us, I make this declaration. You will not end our journey. That is our answer! The answer of all lives of Etheirys, past and present!"

"No lands must remain beyond our grasp. Go forth. Conquer. Rule."

"I am Solus zos Galvus, founding father of the Garlean Empire. And, under various guises, the architect of myriad other imperially inclined nations. As for my true identity... I am Emet-Selch. Ascian."

"Just once...might we not seek to find common ground? For good or ill, I am immortal. Provided I have the inclination, I can always begin anew. Scheme and conspire to my heart's content."

"(Offering his aid to retrieve Y'shtola from the Lifestream) Once you've found a likely spot, all you need do is whistle. You do know how to whistle, don't you, hero? Just put your lips together and blow. Well, what are you standing around here for? Get searching! You do want to save her, don't you?"

"(After Emet-Selch retrieves Y'shtola from the Lifestream) What a touching reunion that was. It fair brought a tear to the eye. But as we both know, such tender moments are nothing if not momentary. Before long, they will remember their many differences, and return to squabbling."

"But conquest is the easy part. The true challenge begins once the dust has settled─quenching the glowing embers of animosity and maintaining a semblance of peace. This requires the conqueror to treat the conquered with dignity, and the conquered to let bygones be bygones. A difficult feat to achieve."

"What? You thought ancient beings like us incapable of crying? Well, rest assured that if your heart can be broken, then so can mine!"

"You cannot be entrusted with our legacy. I will bring back our brethren. Our friends. Our loved ones. The world belongs to us and us alone."

"Behold, the coming oblivion. 'Twas the end of our era, and the beginning of our great work."

"Fool. Who are you? No one. Nothing. Once I have reclaimed my heritage, my first act will be to expunge your stain from history's weave. My world will have no need for heroes."

"And you! Why waste your final moments in futile defiance? Weary wanderer─you've no fight left to fight! No life left to live!"

"Behold, a sorcerer of eld! Tremble before my glory!"

"My dormant bretheren, dream now of a dark tomorrow... By our gathered might must we reclaim these vain reflections. In Zodiark's name, I beseech you!"

"Remember... remember us... Remember... that we once lived..."

"Herein I commit the chronicle of the Traveler. Shepherd to the stars in the dark. Though the world be sundered and our souls sent adrift, where you walk, my dearest friend, fate shall surely follow. For yours is the Fourteenth seat - the seat of Azem."

"It is precisely when things appear to be proceeding according to plan that we must needs steel ourselves for impending danger."

"If ever you should falter, remember this: no one, however powerful, is immune to the whisperings of doubt and despair. Do not give in to them, but do not deny them either. Look instead to the light within, that you may continue to serve as a beacon to others."

"Lady Lilira, for all our sakes, please... stay out of harm's way. As for you, my friend... for Lilira's sake, please stay in harm's way!"

"The path we now embark upon is perilous, but I pray you will walk with us to the end. For those we have lost. For those we can yet save."

"There exist myriad barriers that divide us—those of race and nation, language and creed, to name but a few. Such barriers serve to isolate us from our neighbors...yet they also serve to define who we are. Shorn of them, there would be little to distinguish one from another, and the rich variety of our lives would give way to sterile orthodoxy. These barriers can never truly be broken down, of course—not so long as there is liberty in the world—but they can be transcended!"

"Please, Mother Hydaelyn! Hearken to our plea! Lend us Your divine Light! Why can You not hear us? Do our words no longer reach you?!"

"(Brass Blade: You'd best come along with us.) You invite me to your party then you ask me to leave? I do so detest receiving mixed signals."

"Pray, return to the Waking Sands."

"Is aught amiss?"

"May you walk in the light of the Crystal."

"Give Tataru a hug from me, all right?"

"It looks like centuries of fear and mistrust really can't be washed away in a day. But someone has to make an effort at reconciliation if these conflicts are ever going to end."

"Well met, friend. My name is Minfilia, and I lead the Scions of the Seventh Dawn."

"Yet remember this: however glorious the past, it is the hero's lot to be judged on the deeds of the present."

"And there you have it. Our friend is too stubborn to die."

"Alphinaud! I'm about to do a great many stupid and reckless things. Watch my back, would you?"

"How can you even entertain such thoughts!? You owe your life to the Warrior of Light, and you don't get to die unless he/she says so."

"I could do with a little rampage myself."

"Though no weapons are drawn, a negotiation is no less a battle, and the stakes can be every bit as high. One misplaced word and people could die. It takes someone with a cool head, and I'll be the first to admit that's not me."

"Well, this is it. The end of the path, and the beginning of whatever awaits. There will be greater hardships. We may be made to feel powerless. Yet come what may, let us have no regrets. No, let us have pride in what we have achieved. In what we achieved, and how it changed us for the better... That's worth fighting for. And dying for. As they did..."

"Our worlds may not live up to your lofty standards... But they are our worlds! Our homes! Full of life and love and hope! And we won't stand by and let you destroy them!"

"Speeches? Oh, yes, I love them. There's nothing like a good exposition when you're having trouble sleeping!"

"I must trust in myself to do what is right. As others have chosen to trust in me. So I will continue as I always have, weighing the consequences of my every action, and allowing my hope for the future to inform my decisions."

"If this journey has taught me anything, it is the importance─and difficulty─of holding to one's convictions in the face of failure...of striving always to replace one's ignorance with knowledge."