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

by James Islington

It will be harder to choose what is right over what is expedient, when you know how many times that has resulted in failure, and how important it is to succeed.” He leaned forward, expression serious. “But all of us who live long enough face that problem, Tal’kamar. Sometimes it’s what’s right against what lets us win. Sometimes it’s what’s right against what lets us survive. But it is always a choice.”

“The lesser of two evils, and the greater good. The most dangerous phrases in the world.”

“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.”

“I’m telling you that you should doubt—as I do my own beliefs. The day on which you decide not to question what you believe, is the day that you start making excuses for why you believe it.”

The next few minutes were tense as they kept to the shadows, twice having to skirt what appeared to be makeshift checkpoints along the streets.

Are precautions being taken??? Like cant we stuff our ears with wax a la sirens?

“It sounds as though the book was Notarized,” said Taeris thoughtfully after Wirr described to him what had happened with the seal. Wirr looked at him blankly. “It was a way of authenticating important documents,”

Lol

She smiled. “My feelings for you are the same, though.” Caeden’s heart skipped a beat but he said nothing for a few moments, mentally turning the words over to make sure that he hadn’t misunderstood. “Even after what I’ve just told you?” he asked eventually. “Even after whatever you haven’t,” said Karaliene quietly.

Im rooting so hard for this and James if you betray me i will hunt you down

Wirr closed his eyes and healed as much as he could, but he knew that it wasn’t enough.

James you absolute motherfucker

Your nature is too trusting, and you are too soft.” She smirked mockingly as Asha stooped and picked up the blade. “You do not have the—” Asha stepped forward and rammed Whisper with all her strength into Nethgalla’s stomach.

THATS MY GIRL!!!!!! THATS MY MF GIRLLLLLL

She was just like the rest of them—willfully ignorant, passionately believing in something because she surrounded herself with people who also passionately believed in the same thing. He knew the type, now—those who found it easier to listen to people who reinforced what they already thought, rather than actually considering the opinions of those who didn’t.

The true evil is always in the reason and the excuse, not the act.

“We have both been alive long enough to know that evil only wins when it spreads. It can cause destruction, it can cause death—but those are consequences of its nature, not its victory. Not its goal. The danger of evil, the purpose of evil, is that it causes those who would oppose it to become evil also.” He looked Caeden in the eye. “And that, my friend, is what happened to you.”

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