"Men never resemble one another so much as when asleep or dead."

"The world has its own ways, sockets so deep that not even the Gods can dislodge them. No urn is so cracked as Fate."

"Everything is concealed always. Nothing is more trite than a mask."

"Things holy ... became mere versions of things unholy ... as though the words "holy" and "unholy" were as easily exch…"

"Achamian had crisscrossed the Three Seas, had seen many of those things that had once made his stomach flutter with s…"

"Avarice, it seemed to him, was the world's only dimension."

"There was nothing the ignorant prized more than the ignorance of others ."

"Above all the mighty detest change"

"Answers are like opium: the more you imbibe, the more you need. Which is why the sober man finds solace in mystery."

"Where the holy take men for fools, the mad take the world."