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“I wake up every morning, proud of who I am,” he told them. “I go out into the world, never regretting that I didn’t at least try and be the person I want to be. I face dangers and make mistakes. Sometimes I get beat, and sometimes I win. I stand up for what I believe in, whatever it costs me. When you give everything, you have to be who you want to be, that’s freedom, whatever your circumstances.”
“If your goddess is willing to hand over such information, then by what moral stricture does she not? Instead, she looks to ransom a man’s principles. You just tried to turn me on my friend, a man who saved my life, and you have the gall to lay there looking surprised? If you want to help me, then help me. Bring your self-serving ways to me again and you’ll get worse than you got today.”
“You should always welcome being proven wrong,” Jason said. “It means your understanding of the world just got a little bit better.”
“No,” Humphrey said. “You’ve sparred with him. Run from him. You haven’t fought him. Jason is very good at killing and very bad at leaving things alive. If he’d wanted you dead, you would have been dead.”
Money and power have to be a means, not an end, or you'll lead a joyless life.”
You can do almost anything if you're willing to do what it takes. People mostly fail at things because they balk at what they have to do. It's not that the path isn't there but that they aren't willing to walk it. There's a price they aren't willing to pay, be it literal, political, social, whatever. But if you're willing to commit, impossible is just a word for people convincing themselves not to try.”
the Stanislavski system,” Jason said. “To grossly oversimplify, it's about becoming the person you're pretending to be in the moment.”
I’d never heard about this before and I thought it was very interesting.
the guy looks like someone sucked the air out of a bag of nuts.”
I found this so funny I couldn’t stop laughing like who comes up with things like this lol
