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“I wished to find the boy, so pure of soul, who had opened these cells to bring the hermits just enough food and drink to keep them alive.
But I couldn't find the boy. I couldn't. And I felt only a raging pity for him that he had ever suffered here, thin and miserable, and desperate, and ignorant, oh, so terribly ignorant, having but one sensuous joy in life and that was to see the colors of the ikon catch fire.”

So much happened to Armand and he was only seventeen.. I would be psycho crazy too. Marius is an evil evil man.

"’This is the only sun that you will ever see again. But a millennium of nights will be yours to see light as no mortal has ever seen it, to snatch from the distant stars, as if you were Prometheus, an endless illumination by which to understand all things.’

And I, who had beheld a far more wondrous celestial light in that realm from which I'd been turned away, longed only for him to eclipse it now forever.”

“‘He has become the world to you as only such a great being can. […] A man such as that becomes all things to you, and his wise voice becomes the law by which everything is measured. All that lies beyond has no value because he doesn't see it, and he doesn't declare that it is valuable. And so you have no choice but to leave the wastes that lie outside his light and return to it. You must go home.’”

“‘Master, you play with me and I’m the toy that feels all things.’”

“No one spoke about the fact that I slept in the Master’s bed.”

sweet baby jesus and the grown one too !

“‘The story begins a long time ago. Maybe I’ve never truly realized how long ago, until this very moment. You listen and write. Let me be the one to cry and to rant and to rail.’”