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Panic was a plague. Its sole purpose was to spread until it tore through every thought, every instinct.
May we lead the lives our ancestors were denied.
To death we leave you, and we shall live our remaining life in remembrance. Be with you…
I am what remains.
“There is no such thing as a worthy sacrifice. There are only those who die, and those willing to let them.”
She had the temperament of a deranged goose. Every interaction he’d shared with her had thoroughly convinced him he was not dealing with a stable woman.
Shame is a dangerous feeling to manipulate. Pull at the string too many times, and it will eventually snap into apathy.
“You think your mind is a blank slate, where you can build your own networks of information from scratch, through pure logic and reason. You ignore that each child enters a completely unique world, founded on different truths. We build our reality on the foundation our world sets for us. You entered a world where magic is corrosive and Jasadis are inherently evil. I entered one where turning a shoe into a dove made my mother laugh. Have you considered, in that infinite mind of yours, that the truly brilliant people are the ones who understand the realities we build were already built for us?”
History has a twisted sense of humor.
We mourn what history mocks.
“Men don’t see women, dear Daleel. They see power. Which one of us has more of it, and how easily they can drain it out of her.”
Was it possible to miss someone you had almost been? Someone who but for a stumble in the sands of fate, I would have become.
Who we are is where we were. Where we come from. The generations of our blood and our roots.
Your mind is a maze of mirrors, reflecting only the memories you choose to save.
“All your choices require sacrifice. The question is, what are you willing to lose?”
At the root of all chaos is reason.
After a lifetime of running, he was my homecoming.
The daughter in love with the shy, bookish Omal Heir, and the granddaughter in love with the Nizahl Commander. Which do you think is worse?”
