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“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

“Funny thing, watching gods realize they’ve been mortal all along.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising