Quotes[edit | edit source]
Volume 5[edit | edit source]
Volume 6[edit | edit source]
- (To Talia) “Is it okay to be happy? Even when friends die? I should not feel happy. But I do. The world hurts. It is cruel. Good dies. But still. Even though I am…am I allowed to want to smile?”
Volume 7[edit | edit source]
- (To Telich) “I left them. I will die here. Do not—deserve—to bother them.”
Volume 8[edit | edit source]
- (To Lloyd) “Erin is Erin. Very crazy. Does strange things. She is…strange.”
- Missive for Erin:
- ‘From Liscor to Terandria, here I am.’
- ‘I am playing this fun game. Challenging the [Innkeeper] and inn when I get back. Very nice [Knights] here.’
- To Greysten:
- “Stop worrying. Go do it or don’t! Goblins don’t waste time. If the enemy is over there, go over and hit them or ambush them or do something. Or run away! There! Goblin advice given. Goodbye.”
- “You are. The Summer’s Champion rides to war. So—I am the [Champion] of my people too. I should probably join you.”
- (To Greysten) “I don’t ever abandon my friends. I don’t have enough to lose more.”
- (To Talia) “I don’t underestimate my foes. I lost my people and my family, once. Never again. So let’s fight.”
- (To Markus) “—I sacrifice you. Have lots of fun.”
- To Seraphel:
- “I have done what I wanted. Many things I was told to do, but I did them because I believed I should. When I was young, my father told me I would die a warrior and never grow old. But he taught me to be proud and strong.”
- “I followed his orders until the day I didn’t, because I believed it. But I never did anything I didn’t want to do. Sometimes I didn’t know, so I followed my brothers. But I would never get married if I didn’t want to. Maybe I would if I thought it helped. You want to get strong? Pick up a sword and practice. Everything else is a stupid excuse.”
- To Talia:
- “I had no purpose because my brothers died, and my people died. Because they died, and I could not save them, and I wandered around. Until I met you.”
- “You say I followed you. As if it were light. Into war. Now—now we see a Great General destroying armies. And you think this is a terrible thing and face death. You waver; I see it. I? I knew I might die when I stepped on that boat in Izril.”
- “I will. I will fight and die in that corner for someone I met. A second ago. If I believe they should live. I am ready. You are not. That is what it means to be a [Knight]. Any battle, any fight may be my last—but I do not need big words or reasons. I went to this war for you, Talia. You and all the others.”
- (To Seraphel) “Do something with your life, stupid!”
- (To Imaginary Zel) “I know. But I have fought and killed. So it is mine. I can walk away, but what about the dignity of people I’ve killed?”
- (Thoughts) Greydath and this old man. I hate old men with white hair.
Volume 9[edit | edit source]
- (To everyone) “You’ll believe next time. But you’ll miss it. Again and again, unless you’re ready. So be ready. Someday, your time will be all out. And then what? Do something, anything. Stupid.”