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What an odd and curious human behavior—to build new places in the fashion of the old. It was an attempt to cling to their past as though it were somehow better and grander than their future. The past is only ever lesser. What may come is all that will ever give us hope.
You met me in a dream. Now we shall see how you fare with my nightmare.
But I would have my hopes shatter and not atrophy. If she will loathe me, I would have her love die in a blaze of glory, not wither and fade as she comes to slowly be disgusted by my true nature.”
“You shall see my kindness and my cruelty in equal measure until you decide which half you prefer to accept is the greater part of the whole.” “I fear they are equally matched and I will spend the rest of my years wandering in this purgatory you have made for me, weeping over the death you would create only to let you kiss my tears away.”
She needed him to soothe the wound she had been dealt, even if it was by his own hand.
“But sometimes it’s not about winning, it’s about trying. Sometimes that’s all we’ve got to show for ourselves in the end.”
What part of my soul would you have me kill to do as you ask?
Very few wake up in the morning and decide they are to be the villain of their own life stories. What cruelty we pay to others we have learned to dismiss.
“You tried to do what was right. That is more than most can say. I have seen evil in this world, hunter. It is not the same as weakness.”
