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“Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.”
“Existence is the gift. Life is a choice.”
“Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.”
“Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.”
“All war is philosophical. That's why we call it war. Strip it of its paint and it's nothing more than murder.”
“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”
“I used to think fear either numbed or nudged. Now I knew fear did neither. Fear was a key that fit every person's hollow spaces---those things that kept us cold at night and that place where we ret...”
“Fear was a reminder that even the insubstantial could kill. But insubstantial meant it had no shape. It couldn't be conquered or tamed or avoided. Only moved through, with force and will.”
“Surviving isn't just about cutting out your heart and burning every feeling into ash. Sometimes it means taking whatever is thrown at you, beautiful or grotesque, poisonous or blissful, and carving...”
“And perhaps that in itself was the great secret---not just for legacy, but also for life. You could carry a story inside you and hold it up to the light when you needed it the most. You could peer ...”
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.”
