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“We are the choices we make, Todd,”
Sometimes the rumour of an army is just as effective as the army itself, he told me and wasn’t he right?
“Yes, and now the women and children of this city will not die! Because I reached a peace!” “A peace that blacked yer eye,” I say. “A peace that split yer lip.”
“The words of a sage,” he says, “in the voice of a hick.”
Not one of them lifting a hand to save theirselves from what’s coming, hoping if they’re meek enough, if they’re weak enough, then the monster won’t eat ’em.
“If you ever see a war,” she says, not looking up from her clipboard, “you’ll learn that war only destroys. No one escapes from a war. No one. Not even the survivors. You accept things that would appal you at any other time because life has temporarily lost all meaning.” “War makes monsters of men,”
The Devil tells the best stories.
The best liar is the one who believes her lie is true.”
It’s not that you should never love something so much it can control you. It’s that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It’s not a weakness– It’s your best strength–
