Most men choose to avoid my father at any cost.[to Wren]
Many good things start with desire.
It wasn’t vision that destroyed the world. It was people. They can do that with or without sight.[to Kofun]
Humankind has a long history of despising and fearing those who are different. Nobody chooses how they’re born. And yet the unsighted persecute the sighted. If one day the sighted outnumber the unsighted again, the roles will reverse. It is one of the many ways in which we all are very much the same.
For years, we held power based on the whim of the machines beneath us. When they chose to work, we were adored. When they didn’t, we weren’t. I don’t want to be queen because the machines work. I want to be queen because I am.
Fear is worse than the pain.
Everyone thinks home is safe, until it isn’t.
Everyone close to you always ends up suffering.[to Baba]
Every child eventually comes to a bridge that they must cross alone.
Don’t mistake power for freedom.[to Kofun]
Baba Voss, I would always choose a man who can care of me over a man who understands me.
A soldier must believe in his cause, must believe in his queen, must love her to the point that he would be willing to die for her.