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“I don’t do anything for the opinions of others.”
They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority.
“I’ll reclaim my humanity by destroying a man who would otherwise deny it. You can’t talk people into giving up their hold over you. You have to make them do it.”
I think the world is too complex for most things to be purely right or wrong. Given that, the way words, actions, or even intent is viewed depends on who is doing the viewing and on who is being viewed.”
“They’d have me walk across the coals with them as equals, me in my bare feet and them in leather boots.”
“don’t give in to the lie that you honor the dead or Gifted Zuri Uba by closing your heart forever. Grief, anger, they’ll hold you for a time. They must. But if you let them root and fester, they’ll become a hate that will consume you.”
“Nali, you can’t just ask people why they have two swords.”
"karen, you can't just ask people why they're white!"
“Lady Gifted, as far as I know, the only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”
“Fellate a scorpion’s sting, you wingless kudliwe!”
he ate that LMAO
