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“Power must be claimed. Wealth won. Rule, dominion, empire purchased with blood.
Without me, she would not eat. Without her, I would not live.
Awww
We grew together, and now are grown. In her eyes, I see my heart. In her breath, I hear my soul. She is my land. She is my kin. My love.
“What do you live for?” I ask her suddenly. “Is it for me? Is it for family and love? Or is it for some dream?” “It’s not just some dream, Darrow. I live for the dream that my children will be born free. That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”
In the face of cold power, she is fire.
An empire cannot be destroyed from without till it is destroyed from within.
“In the densest places of man, humanity most easily breaks down,” he says.
“Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.”
Life’s ironies are not charming.
“Society has three stages: Savagery, Ascendance, Decadence. The great rise because of Savagery. They rule in Ascendance. They fall because of their own Decadence.”
I’ll remember that every sin, every death, every sacrifice, is for freedom.
“If you are thrown into the deep and do not swim, you will drown,”
“Some things do not fade. Some things can never be made right.”
“Life is the most effective school ever created.
Man cannot be freed by the same injustice that enslaved it.
Love and war are two different battlefields.
I am the spark that will set the worlds afire. I am the hammer that cracks the chains.
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
