I would not love, unless I was loved first and loved the most. I would be nothing at all, if I could not be first. I would not sit silently wasting away as the world passed me by, like Mother. I was determined to be heard, to have my
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“Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― We Hunt the Flame
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― 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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“Darkness is my destiny.”
― 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
“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
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