"My advice may not be worth much to you, then," he says quietly, but not without a hint of compassion. "I've never been human at all, nor do I ever expect to be. I'm either a god or a monster, or both, depending who you ask."

"Of what value is your humanity to you? How much of who you are is bound up in it? I don't think the self should ever be traded, not for any power or vengeance or blessing that exists...but there is a lot more to self than species or heredity."