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“DEATH IS THE PROMISE WE ALL MUST KEEP. SOONER OR LATER.”
You can’t know how sweet it is to breathe ’til you’ve had your ribs broken. You can’t appreciate being happy ’til someone has made you cry. And there’s no point blaming yourself for the kickings life gives you. Just think about how much it hurt, and how much you don’t want to feel that way again. And that’ll help you do what you need to do the next time to win.”
“TO LIVE IN THE HEARTS WE LEAVE BEHIND IS TO NEVER DIE,”
“Don’t fuck with librarians, young lady. We know the power of words.”
‘To claim true power, all you need is the will to do what others won’t.’”
“Two halves at war within me. And the one that will win is the one that I feed.”
Love often rusted into hate when watered with scorn.
to be alive was ever in some way to be afraid.
“There’s a tithe to be paid for power,” Mercurio said. “Sometimes it’s measured in conscience or coin. Sometimes we pay with pieces of our own souls. But whatever we owe, this much is true—sooner or later, the debt always comes due.”
We are not made more by the stories we read, but by the stories we share.
When in doubt, keep it simple, stupid.
When given the choice to be ruled by an honest idiot or a competent liar, most people prefer the idiot.
