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As Pride is the first sin, so Power is the first temptation.
When you surrender what isn’t under your control, you’re not giving up a crown, you’re giving up a yoke.
“This is why there are few prophets. We end up dead a lot. The truth is offensive to men who love darkness.”
“We are all of us frauds. We are all of us frauds, and we are all of us doing the best we can to hold up a tower of illusions and ill-placed hopes.
I chose to live, to fight, even when fighting meant to fight despair and the taunts of meaninglessness that is the abyss.
Broken hearts have fresh places to bond with new faces.”
“A great strategist once said every military disaster could be summed up in two words: ‘Too late.’ When a plan fails, you don’t wring your hands, you move to the next one.”
“But the world is a spoiled child; it cannot long stand guardians, even when it needs them most.”
“We are the guardians. We are the hands of night. We are the walkers unseen. We are the sword of morning and the bludgeon of midnight. We stand ready. For war, for peace, for life, for death, we stand ready.”
“That you have been given a great intellect is not something to be proud of; it is a burden to bear. It is muscle to be used in lifting greater weights than others can lift.
“This is war; innocents die for the sins of the powerful.”
“We drafters are those Thousand Stars, Karris. We have been turned to a hundred purposes, but at heart we have only one: to bring the light into darkness. Each high-set mirror is special indeed, brilliantly crafted, magically made, but in the end elevated not because of its innate specialness but because only by being set high can it serve to bring light where there is darkness. We are elevated to serve.”
I was too great a coward to live in the light. Fitting then that light be taken from me.
He is terribly bright; he is handsome; he is charming; and you have spoiled him horribly. In other words, he has all the makings of a true monster.”
Slaves shouldn’t be killed for the sins of their masters, no matter how much they seemed to enjoy facilitating them.
