It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope.
“Words are where most change begins.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
“As I fear not a child with a weapon he cannot lift, I will never fear the mind of a man who does not think.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“Power is an illusion of perception.”
― Words of Radiance
― Words of Radiance
“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.
It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Words of Radiance
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