Lush grass grew over the places corpses had been left to rot, back when there weren’t enough villagers remaining to help bury the bodies. Butterflies fluttered from one branch to another, where blood had once stained the leaves. Nature had
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“...and he laughed a laugh she loved more than the warmest of fires on the coldest of nights.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“Darkness is my destiny.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“Heart of my heart. Moon of my soul.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“Be as victorious as the name I have given you, and bring the desert to its knees.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth, and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think, or to speak, or write, with moderation. No! no! Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; — but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
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