"Most people are nothing but glimmers in the great darkness of time.

But you are no swift-burning spark.

You are a torch against the night- if you dare to let yourself burn."

"In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say that those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars.

And they are no longer kind."