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My younger brother was a badass.
holding grudges gains one nothing.”
I have come to believe that people can change. People can reinvent themselves. Relationships can start afresh…”
There was barely a distinction between daughter and granddaughter, father and grandfather. It felt like we loved one another just as much, no matter how far apart we were in our bloodline.
I was sure that the oracles would be proud of her too…
I couldn’t believe the lengths that I was having to go to, simply to do what was right.
I wished I believed that he wasn’t as much of a monster as I feared.
He is what he is. Everybody makes choices in life. He made his, and now I have to make mine.
The only thing that really got him going in life was his work. His criminally destructive work.
What was actually going on in his head? Did he really wake up each day with the intent to be evil? Or was there something in him that made him believe he truly was doing something good? Could he actually think that his actions were for the benefit of mankind?
Do you not care about your son’s happiness? Do you not care about his wishes? Is he just an object for you to command as you will?”
neither you nor I are God. Who are we to judge who ‘deserves’ to live?”
I would go to my death pursuing her love, or live the rest of my life without anyone’s at all.
“There is opportunity to everything in life,”
“if one simply looks for it. Ways to turn bad into good. A disadvantage into an advantage.”
The way he was trying to spin his gross play for power and control into something higher, into something noble, grated on my nerves.
Then anger welled within me that she and I were even in this position in the first place. That we’d ever had to go to such lengths simply to do what was right. We had done nothing wrong or illegal. Why is this so damn hard?
“Have you even met with The Shadow League for a discussion? Have you even given them the time of day to figure out a way you could join forces and work together, rather than constantly against each other? If you are truly in this for the betterment of mankind, why on earth wouldn’t you?”
“You think you know what you’re doing, don’t you? You think this is how you will solve
Earth’s problems, right? Bring peace? You’re clueless, Novak. So bloody clueless.”
