There was once a time when darkness shrouded the world, and the darkness had a queen.

To those who, in spite of everything, still choose goodness.

Fear is your sword

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

You cannot harden your heart to the future just because of your past. You cannot use cruelty against yourself to justify cruelty to others.

No. I cannot let him control me.You are mine, Adelina, Enzo growls. Turn your powers against your own fleet.

I laugh at him, and behind us, several Inquisitors stir in surprise at the sound. Only Magiano can coax joy out of me so easily.

After a lifetime of darkness, I want to leave something behind that is made of light.

One heroic act doesn’t make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Make no mistake—we don’t trust each other, not by any stretch of the imagination.

After she was gone, I sheathed her sword at my belt, draped her cloak over my shoulders, carried her heart in my arms, and, somehow, went on.

It's impossible to walk through solid rock... You have to walk between the molecules that make up the rock.

It is not possible to say too much about Christ. But it is quite possible to say too little about hell.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

I don't feel that I have any great grasp of technique that I should pass along to people.

You have to refine your being. You have to go through all of the stages and steps of erasing yourself through service to others with purity, humility, integrity.

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics.

If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.

Let no one tell me that silence gives consent, because whoever is silent dissents.

How was I conceived? Was it love, was I meant, or was I just an accident?

If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.