Taking up the sword is the last act of desperate men. Mark my words and find yourself a more worthy dream.”
“Despair, he told himself, always demands a direction, a focus. Find the direction and the despair goes away.”
― Gardens of the Moon
― Gardens of the Moon
“Through the gamut of life we struggled for control, for a means to fashion the world around us, an eternal, hopeless hunt for the privilege of being able to predict the shape of our lives.”
― Gardens of the Moon
― Gardens of the Moon
“Morality was not relative, they claimed, nor even existing solely in the realm of the human condition. No, they proclaimed morality as an imperative of all life, a natural law that was neither the brutal acts of beasts nor the lofty ambitions of humanity, but something other, something unassailable.”
― Gardens of the Moon
― Gardens of the Moon
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