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“We dance alone, because only alone do Helldivers drill. Only alone can a boy become a man.”
“Rather a drink be my master than a man. These chains taste sweet.”
The sky above me is a frightening thing. If I stare too intently, I forget gravity’s pull and feel as though I am going to fall into it.
We lie in silence and watch light slip into the sky as though it were a tide made from fire.
“The toughest ant is yet but an ant.”
When they whip Eo, I try not to watch. But it hurts more to abandon her.
“No animal but man throws themselves willingly into the flames,
Death is easy when you’ve already tried to find it.
“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak. “Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the louder their voice, the deeper the echoes.
If violence is the Gold sport, manipulation is their art form.”
I do not yet like vast spaces, and seeing the stars above frightened me.
This is a city, and I do not like it. I feel alone.
Conversation should be considered an art form, or like a grand dinner. Each course in its own time.”
“Power isn’t real. It’s just a word.”
Every night I wake after seeing Eo hang yet again. She sways across my mind.
He gives me something called a hamburger. I love it.
I am Darwin’s scythe.
“If we do not have one leader, then we will fracture and do as we each think is best,” Cassius says. “That’s how we lose.”
“Life is the most effective school ever created.
“You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.”
Words are a weapon stronger than he knows. And songs are even greater. The words wake the mind. The melody wakes the heart.
