"It is better to be feared then loved. A phrase first penned by a sad man, eating alone."

"It's not a perfect universe, in fact, it is quite torn and ragged. This does not, however, absolve us from the responsibility of making it better. I beg thee remember that it shall never be perfect - and, if you're not careful how you do it, trying to make it so just makes it worse."

"Blinded, shorn, wounded and hated. I have lost this battle, but I will not be erased. Not by anyone."

"I am not pure, nor entirely wise, nor entirely good. I will do the best I know, and tend my books, my garden and my charges. And perhaps, if I am lucky, my garden will grow."

"Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand a simple truth. I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape."

"No. My kind are not free of the Red Hunger, no, we are not naturally able to resist it....how to explain...how does one partake without being overcome...without becoming a beast?.....Our self-control is who we are."