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Never Die  (The Mortal Techniques) Never Die by Rob J. Hayes
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“It takes a lifetime of evil to be a villain, and only one moment of good to be a hero.”
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“Honour can be lost a dozen times, and regained. Life can only be lost once, and never regained.”
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“For you cannot find yourself, if you do not first lose your way.”
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“Sometimes the few need to stand against the many, so all can see what is right," Zhihao said, then coughed into his hand. "So the monks used to say. I think it was written on a wall somewhere.”
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“One can either let their losses define them, or define those losses by what is left to them.”
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“There were monsters in the world, Cho knew that well enough, but none were nearly so monstrous as man.”
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“No one makes the rules. They are the rules of the world.”
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“Sometimes peace is no more than oppression in disguise.”
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“Heroes were little more than fools waiting to find the one battle they couldn't win.”
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“Every day is a risk. A hundred risks. Maybe I'll cross the wrong person, start that fight I can't win. Maybe something in the broth I eat will be off. Maybe a tree branch will fall at just the wrong moment as I pass underneath. Every fight we enter into is a risk. Perhaps I'll have a bad day. Perhaps I'm a little too tired and slower than normal. Perhaps my enemy knows how to counter every move I make. Life is a series of risks.”
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“Not all good things are done for good reasons. One group of bandits attacking another. At least there is one less group of bandits in the world.”
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“For some, a sword is an extension of themselves, and thus any sword will do. For others the sword and wielder are one, two halves of one soul, and neither will ever be complete without the other.”
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“A child should never kill their father. Just as a father should never harm their child.”
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“Immortality is subjective. Your stories will always be told. Your legend will never die. But your body can.”
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“Justice of the sword is just murder by another name.”
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“Telling the dead a secret, something no other person in the world knew, so that the living and the dead would forever be bound to one another, no matter how many worlds they might be apart.”
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“I'm sad. It feels as though some of the light has gone from the world.”
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“Zhihao very much doubted the man would thank them for a second chance given his current state. Sometimes the afterlife, whatever it held, was simply the better option.”
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“Some people needed cold steel to concede to another opinion.”
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“The truer test is to do nothing when called to action. Though the reward is often thankless.”
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“The difference between the rich and the powerful was always made so much clearer by walls. The rich hid behind them, the powerful tore them down.”
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Some fight for honour, and some for reward.
Some for glory, and others for a cause.
Some fight for freedom, from tyranny and hate.
And some fight for love, not for a person but a name.

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“The difference between the rich and the powerful was always made so much clearer by walls.”
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“All groups, every group must have a leader. Someone in charge to make the hard decisions. Someone to point the way. Someone who sees the big picture, who knows the true goal.”
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“Some prices could not be paid in gold. Some prices could only be paid in lives.”
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“The thing about this world, the way to survive, is you either become the worst monster you can be, or you find someone else willing to be an even worse monster, and make yourself useful.”
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“A person's eyes are not skin, they are windows from which they see out and others may see in. Windows can be broken.”
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“Some men were destined to be heroic, always putting others first, even at risk to themselves.”
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