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‘'You can't do this. You can't abandon me here.' Kennit merely shook his head to himself. He was so weary of people telling him that he could not do what he obviously could.’ p378

‘…I know it sounds foreign to people, but they refused to be a co-conspirator in their own knockout, in their own demise, if you will. They refused to go along with it. They got hurt, they got hit, they saw the flashes that we see, they saw the darkness that we see. But then they insisted that they get back to light. And that insistence is what kept them from being knocked out, to get back to the light.'’ p37

‘… I just couldn't really move. I could remember it so clearly. And it didn't hurt one bit. Lomachenko came over after and said he'd broken his hand and I told him he'd broken my heart and pride!'’ p30

‘Concussion isn't always so apparent, at least not to the untrained eye; it's more insidious than exhaustion, more of an ambush than a clear and present danger, and once the seeds of it are sown then that fighter most likely has an insurmountable problem.’ p21

‘Atlas is a character who exudes boxing. If you closed your eyes and slowly, gently, ran your hands over his face traced the contours and contusions, it would be like reading, boxing life story in Braille. That's the kind of face he possesses.’ p16

‘It was as if he himself were embodied afresh in this lad. He could protect this boy as he had not been protected himself. He had the power to stave off the destructive forces that had once torn his life apart. After all, they were no that different. The ship had said so. To protect him would be like saving himself.’ p152

‘Their words did not bother me. I knew I had a heart, but it slept within me and I saw no need for it to awaken. In the runes I traced and deciphered, in the strange mechanisms I dismantled, I thought I had enough to occupy all of my thoughts. I was annoyed when my mother insisted I accompany her to visit Bingtown for that meeting. Annoyed! All that was swept aside in the first moment I dared to speak to you’p144

‘I’ll have my life in your hands… You are doubtless accustomed to such power. I have never wished for it.’ p43

‘… he looked to Elo, whose shades were much like Arren’s, torn in red and gold. Inara recognised those colours, the shades of his deepest terror, the flashes of his nightmares, and the horrors of war.’ p365

‘These waves of emotion, tension, were longing for release. To celebrate, to destroy. Enough for someone’s will to slip in and take hold. Sunbringer wanted it to be his will, his glory. He wanted to claim their chaos and tame it. Skedi understood. It was what a gif would want.’ p304

‘It had been a long time since Elo had prepared for war. The fear tasted sour and familiar. The loneliness felt strange.’ p162