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but there was no room for impulsiveness. Only cold strategy. It made her understand why Marcus was the way he was.
“It is the crime of youth to think that the old never have secrets, the crime of the old to think that the youth will never discover them,” he said.
because there was no hate more intense than one birthed from love.
work, but he’d not gotten this far in life by not planning for failure.
“The key to Celendor controlling the East is every other nation perceiving it as stronger, richer, and more powerful. As elite and untouchable. Maintaining that illusion requires everyone to believe the same of the people: that those with Cel blood are superior.
It is easy to resist temptation when you do not realize it exists. Except it does leave Hegeria’s marked woefully unprepared if they stumble across that line. Which is why in Anukastre, we teach our children the truth. Teach them how to be strong.
“Men who seek power and wealth and glory are never satisfied. They only want more, and they believe it is their right to walk upon the backs of those they use to achieve it, for it keeps their feet out of the mud.”
We are bound to their will, but that doesn’t mean we are bound to believe everything they tell us.”
If I could have kept him on a better path and protected him from the Corrupter’s influence. But it is not my duty to keep him on the side of good. It’s not my responsibility to keep him on the right path.”
We’re going to war, Legatus. And I think it’s time you had a taste of what it’s like to lose.
“I think a nation is like a person, Teriana. Others can attack it, break it, burn it, silence it, but they cannot change how it thinks. That must come from within, and if the people of the Empire, and of Celendor itself, do not wish for change, then the Empire’s ambitions will remain the same.”
“Doing right often costs far more than doing wrong.” Yedda sighed. “Just like doing something rather than nothing.”
trenches. I know that we needed to get dirty to win this fight, but … I think that there comes a point when the grime is too thick to wash off. A point when you stop trying to be the hero, so that new heroes can step forward. People whose hopes and dreams and ambitions aren’t yet smeared with the filth that comes with seeing them through.”
