- Shabkana: Taking what you want is the way of great men, Kaidu. Never find solace in settling. Attain or die exhausted in the endeavor.
- [first lines]
- Hundred Eyes: I know now why they call you Lotus. You are like a flower, coming to bloom.
- Lotus: Teach me the Wudang Crane technique.
- Hundred Eyes: I am no teacher. Merely a disciple.
- Lotus: [after village attack] I awoke some time later. Hours, days. It might as well have been an eternity. Everything I once lived for, everyone I knew gone. I turned to the only sanctuary I had left within.
- [last lines]
- Byamba: [observing camp from the wood line] Black powder. I tracked those barrels all the way from Quinsai.
- Marco Polo: Nayan.
- Byamba: Kaidu.