An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2)

by James Islington

For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.

“There is only one reason to be passionate about a lack of faith—and that is fear,” said Caeden quietly. “Fear that you are wrong. An innate need for others to share your opinion, so that you can be less afraid.” He shook his head. “I do not feel the need to argue, to cajole, to threaten or accuse. If others wish to believe differently, that is no business of mine. I simply do not think that there are gods.”

Religion is the following of rules and rituals in the hope that they will somehow garner the favor of a higher power.

It doesn’t matter how wrong he is, so long as he thinks he is right. A man who believes is the worst of enemies. A man who believes is more dangerous than anything.

The danger of evil, the purpose of evil, is that it causes those who would oppose it to become evil also.”

‘The people with whom we are friends should never affect our morality; rather, our morality should affect with whom we are friends.’”

“The lesser of two evils, or the greater good. Get a good man to utter either of those phrases, and there is no one more eager to begin perpetrating evil.”