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But how did it happen?’ many have asked. ‘How was one zealot able to convince all of angelic kind to turn on their human brothers and sisters? We all share the world. Why was he not deemed a lunatic and punished for his bloodlust?’ The answer is simple: Kalmaroth was an irresistible force never before seen in our world—and I pray he will never be seen again.”
Tres true. I know he is a jerk but he's so intelligent...
It was almost like I could see your heart breaking. Which has always struck me as an odd expression. A heart can’t break, can it? It can burst, it can be torn to shreds, it can be stomped upon and smeared across the ground, but it can’t break in the way a bone does.”
With a soft, curious trill, Atheria rested her muzzle on the railing beside his elbow, as if sensing she should comfort him but not particularly wanting to leave her pillows.
I can relate
Corien shrugged eloquently
How is this possible? Teach me, master jedi.
With every step we take away from our home, grief braids itself more tightly into the fabric of our deepest selves. And just as I cannot pry my grief from me, discard it, and move on without it, I also cannot let go of my hope.”
My belief is my hope, and hope is the light that shines even on the darkest night.”
“You are a creature of maddening contradictions,”
“I have also lost many,” she said quietly. “I know what it feels like to know you live because others have died, how the grief sits in you like a stone you cannot dislodge. I have to believe that if they could see us now, they would be proud of our fight and would not regret their part in it.”
Eliana, she prayed, hold fast to your iron heart.
Even monsters were not always without mercy.
“An eternity trapped behind black eyes in a gray world full of broken magic you can’t touch, eating food you can’t taste and drinking wine that turns to ash on your tongue. Wondering every morning if this will be the day that finally tears you out of the body you stole and leaves you stranded, unable to take another.
He tries to break you, the Prophet said, voice warm with pride, and he fails utterly. Well done.
“I am both the Maker and the Unmaker. The thing that destroys and the thing that creates.”
“When alone in your bed at night, the dark all around you, horrors without and within, you may wonder: Is this all there is? War and death? Fear and despair? But this is the wrong question to ask. Instead, ask yourself: What will I do when he comes for me? At the moment of my death, when I look back upon my life, what will I see? Will I be proud of what I have done? Or ashamed of what I have not? Think carefully. I know shame you cannot imagine. I know guilt that crawls through the blood like disease.”
I’m not sorry for what I have done. Regret is poison. It would kill me.”
“There is too much hate in the world already,” Navi replied after a moment. “Why direct more of it at yourself?”
“And be kind to my friend. Her heart is stronger than she thinks, no matter what evil tries to break it.”
“In the stars I draw your hair In the moon I find your eyes In my blood I hold your name In my bones I feel your lies.”
“Don’t be an idiot, you idiot.”
The fate of the world, held inside a single, fragile moment.”
“My light and my life,” he murmured against her scorching brow. “I love you, I have loved you always, and I will never stop.”
