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“All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a Thousand Enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.”
― Richard Adams, Watership Down

“Once a thing is made, it exists in the mind of the world. The next one is easier to make, and the next one after that.

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"The first takes a twisted genius. The hundredth can be done by any blacksmith. It is why our first lesson is always be careful of what you make.”
― T. Kingfisher, Paladin's Hope

“I love you. I love you. I love you. I'll write it in waves. In skies. In my heart. You'll never see, but you will know. I'll be all the poets, I'll kill them all and take each one's place in turn, and every time love's written in all the strands it will be to you.”
― Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War