Kingdoms and Chaos (King's Dark Tidings, #4)

by Kel Kade

“People often fear what they do not understand, and they tend to hate what they fear,”

“When the Maker is silent, it is because the experience of making the choice is more important than the outcome.”

If you hold that resentment in too long, it will turn to contempt, which leads to betrayal.”

It was easier to blame someone I cared about, someone with whom I felt safe, than the true enemy that frightened me.”

We must impress them. If we look to have … um, this is the word for knowing we are good?” “Confidence?” “Yes, we must look to have confidence, and they will think we are important.

“The face was different, but the enemy was the same. Hate. It is a senseless emotion that induces strife wherever it persists.” “How am I supposed to fight hate?” Rezkin looked back to him. “Defeat all those who wield it.”

excogitating.”

“It is easy to blame the horrors and injustices of hate on demons, much harder to credit our fellow human beings. We do not like seeing such terrible defects in ourselves. The irony is that demons do not act out of hate or contempt. They are begotten of chaos, and it is that which they seek to spread in the same way that we often seek order. It is simply their nature.”