I can hear birds singing, but they don't sound at all like the birds I knew. These are mocking and possessed. I imagine they have deformed bodies with glowing eyes, leading the wagon to my own personal damnation. All my wishes and all my draining prayers haven't brought me home. They are bringing me to the one place I sought to be and the one place I wanted to far from.

— Celia McMahon

I can pick a liar from a lineup of thieves and slanderers: the best of the best. I was hoping you would not resist the information we need, but I must ask you now to answer my question truthfully and to choose your next words wisely. What does the key open?

— Celia McMahon

If you're brave enough to do something you better damn well be brave enough to accept the consequences.

— Celia McMahon

I have my own. I don't believe in religion, just as you mentioned. Furthermore, I think it does more harm than good. Believers see it as the one truth, non-believers see it as trash and king's use it for power. Not one of them is right.

— Celia McMahon

I lost my family,” he says softly. The tone of his voice justifies my earlier regret. “If you have nothing to love, you have nothing to lose. Even your own life becomes meaningless.

— Celia McMahon

I see my father. I see him gone away. My world is a little bit colder.

— Celia McMahon

I think, actually I know that it's overwhelmingly possible for men to conduct such atrocities as to kill a man in cold blood, to burn towns and to parade with the dead on the tips of their swords. People who think they are doing something for the good of all are the most dangerous and stirs their intent deeper. There might have been a time when I thought differently, and I would have answered with a quick no but that time had long passed. Do I think it's in human nature to be violent and to succumb to it? Sure I do. It's to justify it, that I think is inhuman.

— Celia McMahon

I trust you. Those are the last words my father said before he left. That means that every decision I make, I would have to question myself whether it was the right one. I can picture him, expectations in his eyes. Because of that, I can see the same look in others. He could not have damned me more.

— Celia McMahon

It's irresponsible to think things are just going to work out because you believe things happen for a reason. I refuse to accept these things. I refuse to give in to that absurdity. You saw what happened in Lucille and you lived with Col all those years. You know the suffering they went through. Even this place. There are so many empty houses yet so many homeless. Society is breaking. The kingdoms are failing them.

— Celia McMahon

I've come to believe that we, as people, only tend to remember only certain of what we hear or read just for that reason. Most of what we retain coincide with our personal beliefs and feelings and the rest, we throw away into the back of our minds where we keep it or forget it entirely.

— Celia McMahon