Taking up the sword is the last act of desperate men. Mark my words and find yourself a more worthy dream.”
“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
“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
Renée’s 2025 Year in Books
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