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Akbar Singh
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I could feel the disease churning in my stomach, the malady that was going to take my life one of these days. That was the ultimate downside to being a necromancer, and the reason there were so few of us. To wield the power of death, you
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“Oaths were important to word correctly, but Gregory could be forgiven for his lapse. It wasn’t every day that his demon lover took a member of his choir hostage, beat the shit out of the guy and kept him a starving captive in her basement.”
― Angel of Chaos
― Angel of Chaos

“Every human being has both sets of forces within him. One set clings to safety and defensiveness out of fear, tending to regress backward, hanging on to the past, afraid to grow away from the primitive communication with the mother’s uterus and breast, afraid to take chances, afraid to jeopardize what he already has, afraid of independence, freedom and separateness. The other set of forces impels him forward toward wholeness of Self and uniqueness of Self, toward full functioning of all his capacities, toward confidence in the face of the external world at the same time that he can accept his deepest, real, unconscious Self.”
― Toward a Psychology of Being
― Toward a Psychology of Being

“Confident, assertive, wily. Angel of Justice. Angel of Vengeance. The Trickster. The Iblis. I was the devil’s advocate, and my job was to provide much–needed balance. How ironic that the very concept I scorned was what I was meant to create.”
― Angel of Chaos
― Angel of Chaos

“There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.”
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“Behold!" Percy shouted. "The god's chosen beverage. Tremble before the horror of Diet Coke!”
― The Mark of Athena
― The Mark of Athena

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