“
          Pain doesn't make people, it's love that makes people.
          ”
          ”
         
        Caduceus Clay
       
        
          “
          To go forth," he said softly. "That is the mandate of the soul.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          There is no more wisdom in order than in chaos.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          I have a black thumb,” replied Lucien. He stopped himself from shrugging again. “And I’ve never been fond of children. How are their little hands always so disgusting?
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Deep in the rabbit warrens of the ruins, a gong sounded.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          The bearded mercenary snorted. “You can certainly try.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          FAMILY MAXIMUS ON THE EVE OF SOLSTICE: GLORY TO GORUS AND VITALIO MAXIMUS, WEALTH AND LONG LIFE TO THEIR OFFSPRING, MORBO, SILIO, AND BOLO.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          I often feel like a failure and a success within the same hour.
          ”
          ”
         
        Caleb Widogast
       
        
          “
          There is always suffering you cannot see.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein - The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Every time I lose someone it's like a door or a window shutting in a house. One by one," she said, snapping the sack taut again, "it all goes dark.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          They met a bad end, and they are better remembered how they were, before broken hearts made more broken things.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          He dreamed
He dreamed
He dreamed of a red basin, a collapsed and hollow place
And from that misshapen bowl came a blank white face
It had no hair to comb
Possessed no mouth to lie
Its one and only feature was a single crimson eye
"The world is yours," it somehow said. "We gladly give it thee."
"How will I take it? What will it cost?"
"There are no answers for thee."
"How will I take it? What will it cost?"
"Pain and pain and pain. A dear price for a man,
A pittance to a King
And nothing to a God, cosmically ordained."
"Am I God or King?" he asked.
"Long may you reign.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Some people think that Death means a rebirth. Something must end for something new to begin.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          You are a wounded soul, Lucien. Fractured. Any world you create will bear those scars, too."
"Well then, if that be true, let the world hurt as I hurt.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          He sighed. “I’ve been naked with plenty of men, though none so vexatious as you.” Sounds like you fucked boring people, but that tracks.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          The Mighty Nein are trying to locate you—” “The what?” he interrupted. “The Mighty Nein, that’s what they call themselves.” “Are there nine of them?” “N-No…” Lucien nodded stiffly. “Ridiculous name.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          The following is not for the faint of heart.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          He wanted to know gratitude, and perhaps even patience, but instead he found himself bored.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          There was a time in his childhood when he knew the dignity of warmth, family, home-and while the taste of it lingered bitter in his mouth, it was at least a taste of something.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein - The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          The crows above cawed after them, and Lucien chose to take it as a rallying cry.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein - The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          He felt hunched and hunted, aware now of every creak of wood, sigh of wind, and birdcall. A whistling, strangled squawk sounded from down the path, and then another. Lucien glanced over his shoulder, but there was little to see but shadows.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          An idea, birthed from pure desperation, gripped him, and though sense and reason rebelled, wild panic took hold.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Gentler, sweeter birdsong and that bubbling, running water promised an oasis, but Lucien knew better.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          He had cast this die: it was already rolling.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Intentional, of course, as everything she did was intentional.
          ”
          ”
         
        Madeleine Roux (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein—The Nine Eyes of Lucien)
       
        
          “
          Death is how we nurture life, Caduceus.'
'Then how come it hurts?'
'Because you loved them. Do you regret that love?
          ”
          ”
         
        Kendra Wells (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins Library Edition Volume 2)
       
        
          “
          Even when we didn't know how to say it, there was love. Yes. I did. It was.
          ”
          ”
         
        Kendra Wells (Critical Role: The Mighty Nein Origins: Caduceus Clay)