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those who choose hope, no matter how dark the way
it stirs my heart to courage.
It is a bold thing, this small light, to keep itself bright despite the darkness.
I wonder if there is such a thing as becoming too familiar with our Creator.
he is in constant war with his heart.”
life does not always offer understanding; it offers a road to continue traveling,”
trying to shake off the strange feeling that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
“Do you see how this tree’s roots have grown around and around in circles, more concerned with itself than with stretching out into the earth? That is why it could not survive the storm.”
Sometimes nature rages, and sometimes hell.”
Pyre was made to be holy, and the earth won’t stand for the desecrations of it.”
“Love of what he once was, with hope that he will choose to become such, once again.”
A Virtus Third is to the good powers what a Beast of Ten is to the bad.
At some point this Bleak had been a Lectus Born, an elect soul with great capacity for carrying light.
to save the Pyre—I
To destroy himself, he must destroy the Pyre first because it is an extension of who he would have been.
“A pyre burns away death for more life,
things that were not built for darkness cannot contain it without great pain.”
“I think the light within you,” I begin, “will fight as long as any part of you wants illumination more than darkness.
“And I wager that your light will burn for three thousand more, rather than lose you forever to darkness.”
no matter what’s inside you, no matter what you’re meant for, if you take counsel from the dark, there it is that you will be led.”
you’re not here to save a creature; you’re here to save a boy.”
Cut the darkness away, and every path becomes clear. Even the impossible.”
I paid the price of color to gain something else.”
“You begin by denying value to whomever you wish to destroy.
Decisions, it seems, are acts of power in themselves.
at some point, each one of us would have to wrestle with the Lights, our hearts naked and exposed, and come away with the painfully honest understanding of where we stand before the Court of Heaven and whether we will do what we are called upon to do.”
the Pyre loves Sperro. It wants me to succeed.
“And you were seduced into nothing.”
“I think you are wearing the physical substance of hope.”
do know that these lanterns wouldn’t be half so remarkable were they not set in darkness.
“Light is the only thing that grows stronger when darkness deepens,”
The act of washing Sperro feels holy.
And it’s no longer just my duty or calling to try and bring him back. It’s more.
It is a transaction between the Light Binder and the Most High; I am a conduit, nothing more.
“As if spite can be the motivation for any pure progress.”
beauty ministers to the heart in a way nothing else can.
He’s asking for a thousand reassurances, all the while giving me something he never has before, an ancient strength, one that does not pull from the dark.
“He was already born unto immortality! We all are,”
the Lights want to claim you, heal you, save you for Their own, but you must choose Them.
tragedy and struggle were fitting subjects for art, arguing that they help us find empathy within ourselves.”
“The Lights always begin with truth; that is what they build on.”
“You can’t rip yourself into little pieces and give them away. You must learn to remain whole and let the Lights work through you. Some tasks do mean giving of yourself, but in a way that doesn’t make you unable to finish them.”
“Darkness does not let its former captives go easily. It must try to destroy them first, to pull them once again into oblivion.”
clinging to the faith that things can be made right.
no need to humble myself before anything or anyone.
power is intoxicating. The most insatiable appetite I’ve ever known.”
Perhaps there is still darkness he’s been unwilling to release.
wearing the first expression of open shame I have ever seen on his face.
While some immediate strength has been granted, other wounds are subject to healing over time: a combination of grace and understanding and mortal frailty.
the promise of happiness in all that is to come.
