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My wife is not as fickle as a flame. She is an ocean. I knew from the first that I cannot own her, cannot tame her, but I am the only storm that moves her depths and stirs her tides. And that is more than enough.
For those who dine with war and empire, the bill always comes at the end.
“History is a wheel. And all mobs are the same. Full of small men with big appetites. Only way they grow is by eating men like us.”
“I know it may be impossible to believe now, when everything is dark and broken, but you will survive this pain, little one. Pain is a memory. You will live and you will struggle and you will find joy. And you will remember your family from this breath to your dying days, because love does not fade. Love is the stars, and its light carries on long after death.”
“Sometimes, little one, it’s best if the worlds think you a little mad.” He winks. “Inspiring what they’ll let you get away with.”
“You are a world entire. You are grand and lovely. But you have to see it before anyone else does.”
“Anything gentle that lives long, hides its stinger well.”
The key to learning, to power, to having the final say in everything, is observation. By all means, be a storm inside, but save your movement and wind till you know your purpose.
Pulvis et umbra sumus. “We are but dust and shadow.” —HOUSE RAA
“Don’t be such an asshole. It’s why there’s war in the first place.”
Dead kids are the loose change of war.
rely on tech and you’ll soon be dead as your batteries are.
“Isn’t that the heart of desire? No one wants to fuck what they don’t fear, because then there’s no validation from it, no power derived.”
“This is not the end. I loved you before I ever met you. I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness. Goodbye, wife.”
