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“Where are we going?" I asked. "The main road leads to all of the major kingdoms.""Not all of them," said Amar.”
“The worms do not take heed of caste and rank when they feast on our ashes," the Raja said. "Your subjects will not remember you. They will not remember the shade of your eyes, the colors you favore...”
“He loved her. And she loved him. And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
“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 ...”
“Ah, desire. Such a poisonous thing.”
“Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.”
“I would rip the stars from the sky if you wished it. Anything for you. But remember to trust me. Remember your promise.”
“Perhaps Choices spring up when history makes way for them. Perhaps they will grow, like legends upon dead conquerors.”
“Enough tiny sharp jabs can cut as deeply as any knife.”
“I will not let us be beings of regret. I know my past. What I want is my future.”
“A story. This was the key to immortality. The things that made kings quiver and deities distrustful: Nothing but a tale.”
“Nothing was more beautiful than a night sky dusted with stars. Nothing was more terrible than a night sky scrawled with a thousand destinies. Night was inevitable. Like me.”
“Night heralded sleep and shadows, demons and dreams. But I heralded the night.”
“What she coaxed out of me was a visceral need to live, and wasn't that what fueled immortality and made it worthwhile anyway? That there were wonders still left to be uncovered?”
“He loved her.And she loved him.And in such bliss does devastation grow.”
“The problem with guilt was not how it attacks the present, but how it stained the past. Hindsight was a blemish on memory.”
“Guilt is what makes you accountable.”
“His smile banished my loneliness and limbed the hollows of my anema with starlight, pure and bright...his touch hummed in my bones like an aria -- a song to my dance, a beginning of a promise.”
