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Only in the fire of adversity does the pure water of healing flow.
In the old times things were made with beauty in mind, not merely usefulness.
She had no illusions about the Sirin’s love. It was not gentle; it was fierce as fire.
I still longed for something with no name, or someone whose name I had not yet found.
If faith in a gentle god had led the Vasylli to neglect the good of others, then perhaps they imagined Adonais to be different than he really was. Perhaps Adonais was a jealous god.
Beware the man who thinks himself righteous, for he is a liar or a madman. Seek out the man who knows himself sinful, for in him the light resides.
“The wheat has a great secret, giant. The secret of all power. In order to flower, it must die. True strength is found in that most humble of acts—the death of one’s self for the sake of another.”
“We talk and talk and talk and never seem to get anywhere. While if you really meant the word, you could make a tree flower.”
Don’t look for evil in the dark shadows. Don’t look for evil in the night. Look for it in the middle of the day. Beware the demon that wears the skin of those you love.
loving, endearing father figure that we stopped considering his unbridled power?”
“It was as if the most thunderous harmony and piercing silence mingled into one. Time raced and stopped altogether, all at a still point. It was as if I actually experienced truth personally, and yet I know nothing at all. How can I explain it? If the power of the sea could be contained in a drop of water, if the limitless potential of words could be expressed in a single thought. An infinite multiplicity in a single entity.
The words had the power of making.
