Tears of Dust Quotes

“They teach you many things in the castras. How to think with precision. How to read signs and people. How to hunt, how to kill, how to ask only those questions you need to ask. “What they don’t teach you is how to hold on to your honor. What they don’t teach you is how swiftly that honor gets chipped away. Until it is nothing but a broken, bloody thing in the center of your soul. And when the deeds are done, and when the war is over, you tell yourself, ‘Now it will heal. Now my honor will be restored.’ But it never heals. It is never restored. You can put up barriers around what’s left, you can guard what remains. You can never have it back.”
― Sylvia Mercedes, Tears of Dust