There’s no guarantee that justice will win out or that a noble sacrifice will make any difference. But when it does, there’s something that still swells my chest. There’s magic in that…. It tells me that’s the way things are supposed to be.
BRENT WEEKSThe duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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Bewildered as he might be, sometimes a man’s highest calling is simply to stand, and hug.
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If I tell you a secret can you keep it quiet? “Well, I can. I’m not so sure about Doll Girl.
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It was no true prayer to beg forgiveness while choosing to sin.
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The duke sounded like he was trying to convince himself. “Have you ever done this before?” “Set up someone by pretending to be someone else? Sure. Pretended to get killed? Not so much.
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Why is it, my shadow-striding friend, that we don’t fear dreams? We lose consciousness, lose control, things happen with no apparent logic and abiding by no apparent rules…. We don’t fear dreams, but we do fear madness, and death terrifies us.
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What people value in their books-and thus what they count as literature-really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
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Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.
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You have to be a little bad to make history.
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A few months ago you assassinated a man who called himself a god; now you’re going after a goddess in truth. Unless you can figure out a way to kill continents, after this you’re going to have to retire.
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Life is meaningless, when we take a life we take nothing of value.
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If you are not free to say no, your yes is meaningless.
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Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It’s living well that I couldn’t do. What’s death compared to that.
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Light cannot be chained.
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It had better be. It doesn’t do much when it’s soft.
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Remember that time you tried to hump the bridge?
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