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where there is life, there is hope.
tears would have made him feel weak. Men have always been fragile that way.
“Love can level the ground between mortals and gods, Yeine. It’s something we’ve learned to respect.”
A proper punishment was meant to redeem the culprit, not just assuage the victims.
There are some things one can understand only by experience, and there are some experiences no one wants to share.
it’s all right to need help. All of us have things we can’t do alone.
“Friends are precious, powerful things—hard to earn, harder still to keep.
Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point.
These people were powerful and mad, and that was never a good combination.
It’s all very well to say the world values reason and compassion and justice, but if nothing in reality reflects those words, they’re meaningless.”
“Good intentions are pointless without the will to implement them.”
love does not mandate forgiveness.”
She did not realize that her fear could spur him to attack, because night was the time of predators and she was acting too much like prey.
“I can’t speak for gods, but any mortal who spends enough time in a place grows… acclimated. One’s sense of what is normal shifts, even if that place is filled with unpleasantness, until separation feels wrong.”
