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Sometimes there are those who must die in order for there to be peace.
life seemed to amble along sometimes, slow and unsteady, the days sliding past with all the speed of a spring snail; and other times moving like a falling scythe, slashing through everything in its path.
“Death is but a change in existence, like rain turning to ice in the north or evaporating to mist in the south.”
“There is always war. There was war before the two of us were born, there will be war our entire lives, and there will be war after we are long dead. But regardless of war, we are just two men talking.”
But the threat of death had been Roan’s companion for some time, and he did not fear it the way he used to.
you said what you meant and meant what you said. If you spoke of someone’s death, you were fully prepared to carry it out.
“There are children who know loss better than those on their death beds,”
“Lessons are learned better from experience,”
“I am human—I want what I cannot have, and I have no interest in that which is mine.”
“It’s not what you start with, it’s what you do with what you’ve been given,”
His past was the key to the future, he just had to turn it in the lock of his present.
heroes are not born, they are grown. Each choice is a drop of water, each experience a ray of sunlight. They grow, day by day, until they are the tallest tree in the forest, willing to protect all who live under their shadow.”
“I fear I’m naught but a sapling at this point. The wind blows and I bend to the ground.”
If his life was a sheet of paper, he’d rather fold it in half and rip the old piece to shreds.
