"Asa, you can not truly think with a brain like yours that what I said to her meant anything. You're far smarter than that. For my whole life, Franklin has played games with me. I am sick of it, Asa. I want Franklin to fear me for once in his life. I want to have something that he wants before he can get to it. Asa, I don't want it the way I want anything else. I need to have something before he does. For once in my life, I'd like for Franklin to...
Oh nevermind. Be mad if you'd like. That's fine by me. You may be mad, and I won't chase you down like a schoolgirl with her stupid pigtails and her pleated skirt and scuffed mary-jane shoes...
Not everybody enjoys being a prince, don't you know? I'd much rather be a knight. I can protect people on my own will. My own terms, even. Why, I'd much rather be a knight protecting a... What do you know? You know nothing of being born into what's practically royalty? What do you know of broken rulers over your skull and knuckles, and whip marks down your back because you didn't sit straight that day? What does someone like you know about figured in the shadows who whisper to your father? At least your father loves you, Asa. I wish, that for one day in my stupid, pathetic, ugly life that my dad looked at me the way yours does to you. I know there isn't an ounce of disdain in his gaze.
You know nothing of the world, Asa. You know love and you simply regurgitate hate because it makes you feel better about the fact that despite everything you've done, all the bridges you have burned, you are still nobody.
I'm sure one is ugly once a brand has been placed on them declaring that nobody will ever see them otherwise. Such a shame, isn't it?
You will never have to know a day where the person in the mirror is not only someone that nobody else loves, but someone that you can't love either.
I'd rather prefer if you never spoke to me again. Then maybe God will finally have pity on you for all of the people that you leave behind. Maybe whatever God is up in the vast sky, the same God that put Venus up there, will look down on you and smile as He did to all of the other victims of your love.
Forgiveness is not easy, Asa. I do not ever expect it from you. You are above forgiveness, and maybe He will be above forgiveness for you too.
May God have pity on you, Asa Damon. I've heard cancer is a horrid way to die. Too much pain for a saint."