Fear was a poison that people mistook as protection. Making choices to stay safe could be just as treacherous.
“Carnival food,” he said, “has this strange property. Each bite you take tastes increasingly artificial, oily, and overly sweet. Until you get done, and (lowly) wonder why you ate all of that. It’s truly magnificent.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“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
“Yeah, well. Sometimes things go wrong. Heroes get hurt. They…they die, and the monsters just keep coming back.”
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
― The Battle of the Labyrinth
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