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"We're only issued one father per existence," Blays said. "Most humans, when given the chance to see a parent they thought was long dead, would leap at the chance."
"Ah, spite. The only force capable of giving love a run for its money."
Blays gazed out at the people hauling nets, launching boats, and slicing up mussels. "They may be filthy, thieving liars. But they sure are hard workers." "Don't observe their honest labor directly, your mind will be overcome by its strangeness."
"I always forget boats have three dimensions."
this idea is so dumb it couldn't feed itself without the help of a team of three servants and a guidebook.
"If we'd ruled out every suicidal idea we've ever had, we'd be dead a hundred times over by now. There are no bad ideas. There are only ideas you don't have the balls to attempt." Dante snorted. "That sounds like famous last words.
"I hate to see a great idea ruled out by a little thing like the fact it's physically impossible.
"Canoe it is. But if we wreck, I reserve the right to ride your corpse to shore."
You had to preserve wisdom and history where you found it. Otherwise, the Currents of time and strife would erode it to obscurity. And if those forces ever grew stronger than those who preserved what had come before, the entire ship of civilization might slip beneath the sea.
elsewhere." "Meaning a where that's else than here?
