Ernost

“You got your revenge. All you had to do was betray everybody that cared about you.”
― Tamryn Tamer, Herald of Shalia 4

“Unlike your kind, mine do not get stronger simply by
lifting heavy things or making repetitive movements. Our physical power is largely innate and comes to us as we mature."

"That's unfortunate," he said as he turned away from her and moved around his desk to retrieve his suit and overcoats. "Strength that gets earned the hard way actually means something."

She smiled grimly as he met her eyes again and said, "I was hatched as part of a clutch of over ten thousand. I am one of twenty-two survivors. Trust me when I say I did in fact earn my strength 'the hard way.”
― Cebelius, Velise

“Maomao had come to believe there was no toxin so terrifying as a woman’s smile. That one rule held true whether in the halls of the most ornate palace or the squalid chambers of the cheapest pleasure house.”
― Natsu Hyuuga, 薬屋のひとりごと [Kusuriya no Hitorigoto]

“I'm a monster. You're a hero. You're supposed to fight monsters, not fuck them. Yet somehow, that hasn't registered with you. So instead you just wander into my life and start making all my dreams come true. I don't get
it. I don't understand!”
― Cebelius, Mask of the Template