“Ah. She made mistakes in the end. But, she was still a child to me.. my great weakness, perhaps, seeing the good in people. She was confused, broken, tormented. As much as I was a victim, so was she, to her own demons. They can drive one insane.. a cautionary tale for us all, I think.” — Father Piuso at the burial of the woman who kidnapped and maimed him.
“But sin does not defeat us by breaking our souls, it defeats us when we let it consume us, to become all we are and though a man may never sin in his life, if he dwells in the sins of others and lets the darkness about him consume who he is, he is no less dust than Thief on the street, the murderer in the night, or the mage.” — Father Piuso to a distraught spiritual child
“People are like good wine, time and age but improves them and sometimes they taste foul at first, but give them a year or so and they become something simply splendid.” – Father Piuso on, well, people
