“I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet”

“Hate. Huh. He'd never hated himself. If anything, he'd always liked himself a little too much. Once, a human female had even accused him of picturing his own face while he climaxed. He hadn't denied it, either, and next time he'd slept with her, he'd made sure to scream, "Strider" at the pivotal moment." --Strider, keeper of the demon of Defeat--”

“It made me wonder how many times we forgive just because we don't want to lose someone, even if they don't deserve our forgiveness.”

“The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.”

“Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language”

“the woman is rain, and when she falls, she is a monsoon. to love her is to drown.”

“Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos. ”

“And when you love someone you don’t always see them realistically.”