Update: A very kind tumblr user Calamity’s Shattered Son reblogged this macro with the original pictures source.  I updated on tumblr and now I can update it here.

This phrase is the crux of my Defense of Sephiroth essay.  Though the words are spoken in The Crow, the quote is actually attributed to William Makepeace Thackery (at least according to the internet).

I did not realize a ghostly Lucrecia was behind him until I went to make this macro, and that made this picture infinitely sadder and more layered.

Picture Source

Quote Source – Source is stated above.