"Besides, there was nothing left in me to save. Even my soul was dying of starvation."

"the sadness was like the weight of centuries"

"It's what you do that counts, not whether they are looking."

"Tell him to go slowly, and to take things easy. These roads are lonely and want blood."

"No-one has ever left a room the way he did: he left it altered forever."

"It is by aftermaths that we most truly judge greatness."