What is a sword?[The Swordmaker]The soul of a samurai.[Mizu]It is a line. On one side of the line is life. The other, death. The edge we forge cuts the line between life and death.[The Swordmaker]
An impurity in the right place is a quality.
Make a thousand kitchen knives. Then you may be ready to make a sword.[to Mizu]
I did not train you to be a demon or a human. I showed you how to be an artist. To be an artist is to do one thing only.[to Mizu]
An artist gives all they have to the art, the whole. Your strengths and deficiencies, your loves and shames. Perhaps the people you collected.[to Mizu]
The sword is the soul of the samurai, and so it must match the man. His blade should be rigid and thin. And gaudy.
You think revenge is an art?[Mizu]Swords, pots, noodles, death. It is all the same to an artist.[The Swordmaker]
Revenge is like gold. It does not rust. It will wait.
All must be pure for the sword to be pure. The metal, the maker, the one to wield it.
A soul like that is drowned in blood. There is no stopping them. They will always find their broken blade. We can only mind our own soul.[to Mizu, about Bloodsoaked Chiaki]
