Your mother, Carla, said this to me... "Do you have to be special? Do you have to be acknowledged by others? I don't believe that. At the very least, this boy... It's alright if he doesn't become a great man... Why does he need to be better than everyone else? After all, just look. He's so cute. This child is already great. After all, he was born into this world."
- Keith Shadis
There are battles in this world where many can die and much can be sacrificed, without accomplishing anything.
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"But then you came running to me with a book. Both of us were outcasts, not able to get along with the other kids in town. That's all we were back then. But when I heard you telling me those things... and I saw the look in your eyes... You looked like you were seeing an amazing dream. But... I didn't have anything. That's when I knew for the first time. I wasn't free. I noticed that I had been living in a birdcage for all this time. And that these freakish things had taken my freedom. The world was so big, but they'd forced me into a tiny cage. And when I realized that... I knew I could never forgive them."
- Eren Jaeger
This was such an emotional volume for me :(