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Fides est periculosa ludum—trust is a dangerous game.
The lost one shall change what is before; Chained to death’s soldiers, becoming evermore; Or Titans will inherit the earth, and there will be nothing but war.
nullum magnum ingenium sine mixture dementia fuit. There has been no great wisdom without an element of madness.
There were two divisive factions of Spartans: Chthonic Houses and Olympian Houses. Each House was a separate family bloodline of power, named after its founding leader—a Spartan more powerful than the rest.
“You speak of death—but you don’t smell of fear. There is something wrong with you.”
I laughed. She was funny.
I love how danger is funny to us traumatized children of the world
Eternal damnation was surprisingly complicated.
“I will never kill someone,” I promised, chest burning with sincerity.
Will this change by the end of the book?
I can only talk to my own kind,
Beasts didn’t scare me. People did.
Out here in rural northern Montana, in the middle of winter, you could do anything to anyone, and no one would know until spring.
After a lifetime of pain, the brain learns how to suffer. I knew how to stay conscious through a beating. I’d had years to perfect my technique.
The blood of a covenant is thicker than the water of any womb.”
It was a dream come true; it was a nightmare.
Monsters were tricky like that; by the time you saw them for what they truly were, it was already too late.
