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“Deep truths there may be, but none is deeper than this: Those lost to us do not return, nor the years turn back. Rather it is that we carry a piece of those lost to us within ourselves, or on our backs. Thus ghosts are real, and we never escape them.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“But then, so few of us truly think themselves evil. They simply think good and evil matters of opinion, and seek to impose their opinion—which is evil—on good. Nothing is evil in its beginning, it only grows that way.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White

“Power is no freedom-unless the man who exercises that power is a monster, and even then, he is free only for a time, for no man is free from consequence.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Shadows Upon Time

“We are beasts of burden, Hadrian, we men. We struggle, and by that struggle are filled, and so define ourselves. That is the way.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark