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“I swear to avenge you, mother, by my very soul.”
Is it better that the guilty should perish, or that the innocent should live?
Light cannot be chained.
“When you don’t know what to do, do what’s right and do what’s in front of you. But not necessarily what’s right in front of you.”
Kip was so mortified, he decided to just die and get it over with.
Aliviana Danavis is hereby recognized as a superviolet/yellow bichrome. Her instruction will begin immediately. I would be… disappointed if she were outfitted in a style less decent than the average Ruthgari bichrome’s. Costs should be taken from Chromeria finances.
Save the city, kill Rask Garadul, but even if you fail those, get that dagger. Everything rests on that.”
“Light cannot be chained, Little Guile,”
‘They love the darkness, for their deeds are dark, and the light shames them.’
“To draft you need four things,” Liv said. “Skill, Will—” “Source, and Still,”
your experience of a thing and the nature of the thing itself are often different things.”
Seriously, if embarrassment were a muscle, I’d be huge.
Will covers a multitude of flaws.”
A ruler who would sweat with them was a ruler who might understand men who won their bread by the sweat of their brow.
“Moments of beauty sustain us through hours of ugliness,”
What you behold, what you believe, how you behave.
“At some point, you have to decide not merely what you’re going to believe, but how you’re going to believe. Are you going to believe in people, or in ideas, or in Orholam? With your heart, or with your head? Will you believe what’s in front of you, or in what you think you know? There are some things you think you know that are lies.
“The Philosopher said that a man alone is either a god or a monster,” Gavin said. “I’m no god.”
It’s better that the innocent should live than that the guilty die.
Who comes back from war a better man?
