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“so desensitized to violence they’ve forgotten it’s to have purpose. Violence is a tool. It is meant to shock. To change. Instead, they normalize and celebrate it. And create a culture of exploitation where they are so entitled to sex and power that when they are told no, they pull a sword and do as they like.”
― Pierce Brown, Morning Star

“I had lived my life, lived it and loved it, made peace with the pains, framed a thousand thousand memories. It seemed all done except for the remembering. And then Rallen came and said that I could be nineteen again.”
“You can’t,” Gwenna said, more harshly than she’d intended.
Delka just smiled. “I know that.” She shrugged. “But can you blame me for wanting?”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond

“Where is the justice,” Triste demanded, “in murdering men in their sleep? Where is the justice in killing children? In cutting down the good along with the evil?”
“Precisely there—Ananshael spares no one. Emperor or orphan, slave or sovereign, priest or prostitute—he comes for us all.”
― Brian Staveley, The Last Mortal Bond