"What do you live for?" I ask her suddenly. "Is it for me?Is it for family and love? Or is it for some dream?" "It's n…"

"I am alone with my sin. This is why they rule. The Peerless Scarred know that dark deeds are carried through life. Th…"

"All my people sing of are memories. And so I will remember this death. It will burden me as it does not burden my fel…"

"Humans are always negotiating. That's what conversation is. Someone has something, knows something. Someone wants som…"

"You have everything, Karnus. Wealth. Power. Seven brothers and sisters. How many cousins? Nieces? Nephews? A father a…"

"Lies are rust on iron. A blemish on power."

"These Peerless thump their chests in salute to me. The monsters. They go with the wind, chasing power. But they don't…"

"War is chaos. It always has been. But technology makes it worse. It changes the fear. At the Institute, I feared men.…"

"Tradition is the crown of the tyrant."

"Death isn't empty like you say it is. Emptiness is life without freedom, Darrow. Emptiness is living chained by fear,…"