We’ve seen things, you and me. Other worlds. Other lives. We have that in common. It’s unbearable. To be able to look through that door and glimpse all the people you could have been. And to know that out of all of them, this is the one you became.[to Juliana]
We were only ever as happy as they allowed us to be.
We owe our hearts and our minds not to any one man but to an idea.
This is who I am. This is who my ancestors were. I’m not going to let them take that away from me.
These two empires that we fight for, they are little more than sandcastles. Only the tides are forever.[to John]
There are very few things in this world worth dying for, even fewer worth killing for. You do understand that? Those things do exist. But when there’s something truly worth fighting for, you’re gonna know it.[to Thomas]
The only way to view the truth of life, is to stand apart from it, to see the consequence of every thought, every action. But still, we are bound by time and space, unable to steer our destiny.
The decadence ruined this country before the war.
The bigger the fish, the greater the patience to catch it.
Some of us are just the same, rotten or kind in one reality, rotten or kind in the next, but most people are different, depending on whether they have food in their belly or they’re hungry, safe or scared.
No such thing as a free lunch, Joe.
Losing people is one thing. Not being allowed to grieve for them, it’s, uh… well, that’s another.
