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“There are worlds beyond mine and things I have only dreamt to touch,”
Narrow ambition breeds narrow-mindedness.
If you let your magick speak for your brain, then soon you don’t have much of either.
I like my body alive and free of Gray bullets. I’m very fussy like that. I’m known for it.
“By the five magicks! First the assassin, now the Archmage wants something. I’m going to have to sleep through the day at this rate.” I stare at him. “What?” says Jacob. “I’m not missing out on my sleep. We’ve talked about this.”
It is not a nice thing to be hated so early in your life by the ones meant to love you.”
The longer your life goes on without change, the more your dreams curdle in the hearing of them; the more they start to mock you and grin at you, your failure reflected harshly against their white smiles.
Start at the basics before you dive into an investigation, or you might find yourself diving into the shallows.
Your history can be painful, but it is not always bad to bleed.
We don’t begin our lives equally, so it’s not equitable to judge people on how they act just to get through the chaos we call self-consciousness. Some people say you should judge a man by how he acts when he’s desperate. I disagree. I judge a man on how he fares when the odds are rebalanced in his favor. When he finally has the freedom to choose how he wants to be remembered.”
“That sense of needing something more. It’s addictive.” “It’s what keeps us all going. But people squander it with religion or their cities.”
“I thought I was going to change everything. Find out everything. The truth of it all. I’m a rational man, and I know I should believe in chance, not destiny, but I succumbed. Maybe humility is the final gift that life gives you. Everyone thinks they are the special one, don’t they? The master of their own narrative. And when we’re proved wrong, we wonder how we ever thought ourselves capable of such powers.”
There are worlds beyond mine and things I have only dreamed to touch. But those things are coming, and my dreams threaten to be real.
