Shan stared at his glass, then lifted it under his nose. It was the closest he would knowingly get to tasting the hard liquor. It was not because it would violate the vows of the monks, which he had not taken, but because somehow it felt as though it would violate his teachers who still sat behind prison wire in Leading.

— Eliot Pattison

The more one understands the world...the harder it is to obtain Buddha hood." Damp to Shan

— Eliot Pattison

Who's to know what makes a bird wake up and decide to change its song? It was written that our world would change and it changed.

— Eliot Pattison