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the Lord Ruler thinks he has claimed laughter and joy for himself. I’m disinclined to let him do so. This is one battle that doesn’t take much effort to fight.”
“it amazes me sometimes that we bother to try. With everything they’ve done to us—the deaths, the tortures, the agonies—you’d think that we would give up on things like hope and love. But we don’t. Skaa still fall in love. They still try to have families, and they still struggle.
It wasn’t a matter of winning or losing, it was a matter of doing something—anything—to struggle against the Lord Ruler.”
Our belief is often strongest when it should be weakest. That is the nature of hope.”
“Oh, child. When will you stop worrying and simply let yourself be loved?”
Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life.
“A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”
The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing.
