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“No one is perfect. No one makes it through life while and unscathed. So do not blame yourself for what is out of your control. We are here, and we have each other. That is what is important.” WAHHHHHHHHH

“Sometimes it felt to Murtagh as if the whole of Alagaësia were a graveyard, laden with history’s sorrows.” woof

“Whether he wanted it or not, Morzan’s shadow would always lie upon him, and aside from his name and the scar on his back, Zar’roc was all he had from his father. It was a meager and hateful inheritance, but it was his alone, and for that he clung to it.”

lines I’m so normal about

“I understand.”
“But you don’t agree.”
The last few feet of Thorn’s tail slapped the ground. Once. Twice. Three times. “What you want isn’t what I want. […] But where you go, I will go.”
[Murtagh] nodded, grateful. Their relationship wasn’t as smooth as Eragorn and Saphira’s, and Murtagh didn’t think it ever would be. But that was all right. A dull thorn was no thorn at all.

“For a true name granted power to those who heard it, and even a magician might command an object with the proper words, so too might they command a person.

As Murtagh and Thorn had learned to their sorrow and despair during their subjugation in Urû’baen” (p. 56)

WOOF that line gives me chills

“Before sleep took him, Murtagh did as was his nightly habit and, in a silent voice, spoke the words in the ancient language that were his true name. Hearing them was never easy; to know your true name was to know your faults as surely as your virtues. Yet he said the name everyday so as to be assured he still understood his own nature and that no one besides Thorn held claim over him” (p. 56).