Christ, It's So Good To Be Alive.

There Is No Dignity For Either The Sufferer Or The Torturer

Horses Are Far Worse Than Men For Treachery.

So Much Of 'normal, Civilized' Life Is Bull That You Can't Imagine... What Frightens You, Doesn't Frighten Me, What Frightens Me, You'd Laugh At.

Wars Are Fought By Teenagers, You Realize That. They Really Ought To Be Fought By The Politicians And Old People Who Start These Wars.

Blackthorne, Beside The Gates, Was Still Turmoiled By His Boundless Joy At Her Reprieve And He Remembered How His Own Will Had Been Stretched That Night Of His Near-seppuku, When He Had Had To Get Up As A Man And Walk Home As A Man Unsupported, And Became Samurai. And He Watched Her, Despising The Need For This Courage, Yet Understanding It, Even Honoring It.