"But now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge."
p. 25

"Ah, Matty, you have more than you know. And people will want what you have."
p. 54

"I called myself the Fiercest of the Fierce."
p. 68

"He has traded his deepest self."
p. 69

"He had not believed anyone would want him, ever, until he came to Village, and even then he had not trusted in its kindness for a long time."
p. 77

"Suddenly he felt that they were all of them doomed. He had forgotten completely about his own power."
p. 82

"Wait for the true need, Matty. Don't spend the gift."
p. 93

"Don't try. If it comes without your summoning it, it is because of...