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“You wanted to be alone. You wanted to be hurt. You think you have to be miserable alone, so everyone will know you’re too noble to put your misery on them. But you want us to know you’re miserable. Your favorite thing in the world is to be too hurt for anyone to help.”
“Power can’t be separated from its history. A choice can’t be taken in isolation from its context. Power is the ability to set the terms of the riddle. To arrange the rewards and punishments by which the choice is judged.”
“Hesychast’s leverage certainly works to control me. He will take pieces out of my brother’s head if I don’t obey him, Baru. He’ll hate it, he’ll tell me he hates it, he’ll keep himself up at night and wrestle with his conscience. But it won’t stop him. He’s the softest kind of evil, the kind that thinks through all the hurt it does, and does it anyway.”
“Of course I die. I’m not the kind of immortal who never dies, Baru. Just the kind who lives forever.”
Yes, people had always been evil nearly as much as they had been good. Yes, happiness was rarer than suffering—that was simply a fact of mathematics; happiness required a narrow range of conditions, and suffering flourished in all the rest.
