"I live with one regret. And it is not for my father. I would kill him again. And again. And again. I've no feelings other than hatred for him. No, I live with one other regret. Hilde."

"It's something that has weighed so heavily on my mind of late. She has spent her entire unlife... mentally handicapped. And by all that I love, I wish I hadn't acted so rash when I was young. Meddling with magics I had yet to comprehend. And now my childhood friend is forever a child in mind, never maturing, never growing older."

"The true horror comes when, for brief moments, her maturity returns. When for just a moment she seems to grasp these concepts her mind usually cannot process. And in those moments, I see her eyes. And I see something. Fear, maybe. Or just... horror. At what she is. And I don't know how to fix her. Or if I even should."