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K.S. Villoso
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October 22, 2024 - January 31, 2025
if we let foreigners get away with whatever they want within our borders, it’s a signal for them to do more.”
it’s about time you learned how small things can signal bigger intentions.”
What am I, in the grand scheme of things?”
Men don’t like to admit failure like that.”
Kefier had to mumble something about already having a wife while Camden expressed great regret in lacking certain areas necessary to reproduce.
“We all want better answers,” Kefier murmured. “I don’t think we’re allowed to have them.”
“A god is a god is a god. If you believe, he listens, no matter what you name him.”
but for a moment, Sume glimpsed her eyes and what seemed to be an endless void of grief, unshed.
That was another thing about a wave—that as soon as it starts, you are powerless.
“Your grandfather told you this?” “Grandfather saw.” She looked at him. “Xyl feels. The soul remembers.”
If your life is taken forever by such things—ended, then and there, for reasons beyond your understanding—are you ever truly free?”
How do you give your whole life knowing they will never know what you’ve done for them?
There will be other nights for worries.”
“Everyone is kind. Until you are not useful anymore.”
If history has taught them anything, it is that humans are greedy and notoriously unstable.
Some things death don’t change.”
If he’s old enough to make decisions on his own, he’s old enough to be held accountable for them.
It was amazing how she could speak so calmly while implying she wanted to strangle the daylights out of him.
sometimes people needed to make certain decisions even if they didn’t always agree with them.
“Do you actually believe your own lies, or do you think I’m just too stupid to fall for them?”
“You don’t know how angry it makes me to be told I have to whore myself out to get what I want.”
Control that temper before it consumes you.
“Yet some things remain difficult to unlearn, once learned.
There can be more than we can ever explain.
“You don’t aim half-heartedly. You throw true and then you live with the consequences.
