"Nothing is ever as it should be. I've felt how much the world has changed, and I've felt how much I have changed with it. It's worked out better for some people than it has for us."
They didn't have to like what was happening, what people were doing to them, what they thought they were going to become. They might have been gods, and they might have possessed more power than the mortals they walked amongst, but who were they to say no to time and to those who created them?
"But now is all we have. There's only what we have now, and what we decide to do about it with the resources we have, and what little hope remains inside us.
"I admire your optimism and your courage; I really do. Perhaps you don't see yourself as much, perhaps you feel you don't deserve what you have, or what others have done for you. But on some days, you're the only thing that keeps people going."
One of the only things that kept Ryan going, that told him that what he was doing - what people were doing with him - they had good intentions mixed in with the bad. If nothing else, everything they did would serve to remind him that he had gotten too close.