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knowing things is the only currency that counts.
“When you’re outnumbered and outclassed, chaos is your best chance.”
He didn’t know if that stretch of water even had a name. But you don’t need to know the name of a place to die there.
The Saviour had definitely tended against killing, and she heard priests talk about murder like it was really the worst, but when she finally read the scriptures herself, she found God couldn’t go a page without smiting the shit out of someone.
In the end, it seemed to Sunny that right or wrong is mostly a question of what you can get away with.
So this was a crosstrees. One of those things you’ve heard of, sounded vaguely interesting, but you’d never, ever want to actually visit. Like England.
quick as regrets,
Whenever she went looking for something in her head, she never came out with anything she wanted. Like diving for oysters in a fucking midden. Better to let it go.
Good intentions can be buried in the graveyard of defeat, but they just as often sink in the bog of victory.
“What’s the point of dignity anyway? Can you hug it when you’re lonely?”
“No matter who rules, the world will still be the world. People will still be people.”
“Hope is a precious resource,” murmured Jakob. “We shouldn’t waste it against the inevitable.”
Maybe they deserved it and maybe they didn’t, but that was a question to be asked after they were dead or better yet never asked at all.
Thieves and Empresses. They all have to make the best of
