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“For this is the Sword of Kaigen; to charge it, is to die.
“Any warrior will tell you that even the strong can’t afford complacency,”
I can be strong in any shape,
Autumn dies in the teeth of winter.”
“A competent god would never make a housewife with your skill and hunger. You might look like a decorative flower, but you’re more sword than anything else.”
Thank the Gods she was a monster.
They had all come out of the same ocean, hadn’t they?
“You’re no one’s prisoner. You’re Sirawu, the Shadow. You can go anywhere.”
“I think that was the day I understood that this peninsula really was blessed by the blood of gods. City people come through sometimes and say it’s dying, but divinity lives here.”
“I mean, I knew our government wasn’t transparent—What government is?—but
Any warrior knew that death by slow poisoning was worse than death by the blade.
“What are you?” Takeru whispered. Something bigger than myself, she realized. “I’m Matsuda Misaki,” she said with pride and honesty
A dragon knew when he was looking at worms and snakes.
a person’s tragedy doesn’t define them or cancel all the good in their life.
Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.
