Duty means doing something not because you like it but because you're supposed to.

Temptation is strange, it crawls out of unexpected places.

For every radiance, a sacrifice.

It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business. Especially with a Catseye who’d just been stood up by her date.

Her name was Ame. She had gorgeous grey eyes and a gently rounded face, but it was her hair, coal black and windwild that had drawn me in the first time.

It was one thing to intervene while a man was being beaten, but it was another thing entirely to intervene in Catseye business.

If the choice is between me risking my life and losing you, I’d choose the first.

I had battered down seas, dispelled storms. Surely coming clean about my feelings was an easier task.

We’re chasing a dying sea under an endless sun that kills us with a thousand little cuts every day. There’ll be nothing left soon. Nothing but sand and bone.

They can defend themselves, and they can attack if they think we’re a threat, so I don’t advise throwing things at them.