"I may have accepted his gift, River, but that won't stop me from throwing him on that pyre myself. He will be dead when all is said and done." For what he's done to his own daughter, Erik cannot forgive him.

"I'm sorry, River. I never meant to make you feel inadequate. I didn't do this because you aren't enough. I did it because I wanted more than I was physically capable of. I wanted this to bring us closer. I can taste you now. The salt of your sweat, the cinders on your breath. I was missing those parts of life. I can taste the world in a way I haven't in centuries. When you let me into your body, you showed me exactly what I'd been missing. An entire sense dead to the world. I told myself it wasn't important but... it was. It is. But it isn't more important than you."