Death can have me, when it earns me.
— Kratos, summing up his life since selling his soul to Ares in one sentence.
You seem like a calm and reasonable person. Are you a calm and reasonable person?
— Thor, asking the ultimate ironic question of Kratos.
- After lifting Freya's curse:Freya: I suppose... this is the point where I forgive you, or I kill you.
Kratos: Have you decided?
Freya: To be honest... I don't think I can do either.Freya: Look.... Everything that's happened between us—
Kratos: No need to explain. Not to me. Not for that. - Visiting Sindri after Odin kills Brok gets you this dialogue:Atreus: Sindri, I... I'm so sorry—
Sindri: No! No, I don't want to hear it. You don't know what sorry means.
Atreus: We're not letting Odin get away with this.
Sindri: Would that be the Odin you invited into my home?
Kratos: We were all fooled.
Sindri: Oh, but some of us were bigger fools than others, aren't we? I gave you everything: my skills, my friendship, my home, my secrets, my treasures... and you just kept taking! And now what have I got? Not even my family. You want "sorry"? This is what sorry looks like.
Atreus: I— What can we do?
Sindri: We? There is no "we". There's only you. No matter what the cost. So what you can do... is get the FUCK out of my sight. - In a flashback to Kratos and Faye discussing her last will.Kratos: You prepare for a distant future. There is much time ahead of us.
Faye: I wish to better a future... that will exist without me whenever that day comes. For you, and our son. We will always walk together Kratos. You will always be a part of me. I will always be a part of you.
Kratos: And when you are gone, that part of me dies as well. Faye, to feel your absence—
Faye: The culmination of love is grief. And yet we love despite the inevitable, we open our hearts to it. When the pyre is spent and you've gathered my ashes, spread them from the highest peak in all the realms. You will do this for me. To grieve deeply... is to have loved fully. Open your heart to the world as you have opened it to me, and you will find every reason to keep living in it. - Kratos and Atreus having a heartfelt conversation that's long overdue.Kratos: I have been...falling back into my old ways. Angry, distrustful, with you...now and before. I...I chased you away.Atreus: Without you, I got reckless, overconfident, made stupid mistakes. I don't know why I thought I could do this alone. You were right-Kratos: No. On our journey together, you have grown into a warrior, worthy of your namesake. I... was the one who was not ready.Atreus: You don't have to be who you were just because I'm not there. Let's make a promise. I'll listen for your voice in my head when you're not there. To guide me. And you do the same. Alright? I need to know you'll be okay without me.Kratos: Atreus... I am sorry.Atreus: Don't be sorry father. Be better. Let's go home.
Loki will go. Atreus...Atreus remains.
— Kratos saying goodbye to his son as he departs from Midgard
Odin: The deepest wounds form the greatest bonds.
Freya (much later): Bastard said it as part of our vows. I hate it when he's right.
Goodness is not a destination we arrive at, but a practice.
— Tyr
What can I say to you? I remember how it felt to take that throne. All that it meant. And all that it did not. A god of war... a god of pain. Of suffering. Of destruction. The Norns said I chase a redemption that I know I can never deserve. What does that make me? God of fools! A god of... (long, reflective Beat...) Hope. "When all else is lost..." You lost everything. And everyone. And you became... There is no forgiving you. You chose! ...I... chose. What now? Should I, this same man, should I sit? Take? Proclaim? Lead? Place myself in service? In... service... Should I... lose everything and everyone... will there still be enough left inside so that I do not become you? I do not know. But I have hope. You are cruel, and arrogant, and selfish. But you are more than that. You have always been more than what others saw. You are more than that.
— Kratos, confronting his younger self and summing up the modern duology.
