"She knew now indeed, that she had been the best Parry could have chosen, and that she had lived up to her potential. He had been the diamond cutter; she had been the diamond."
Chap. 2, p. 25

"'I think she cannot escape the mortal realm,'" Thanatos said. "'She is not evil, but the circumstance of her death precipitates monstrous evil.'"
Chap. 2, p. 40

"Generosity was good, forgiveness was good, and the ways of the Lord might be strange at times, but perhaps did have merit."
Chap. 3, p. 57

"Parry wrestled with his conscience and his long training, but the battle was so uneven as to be token."
Chap. 6, p. 115

"Perhaps, if he continued his good works, he would in time recover his prior orientation and rejoin God."
Chap. 8, p. 143

"'You are alive. You assumed the Office in your last moment of life, and became immortal and ageless. Only when you...