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“Except, Marco underestimated the fact that her parents had always preached loyalty to a cause, if you joined it, no matter what.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“But there’s a difference between allowing everyone the same basic rights and opportunities then there is to thinking everyone is squarely equal. In a battle, for example, you’d prioritize and value people who could fight, or healers, over plumbers or secretaries. Equality as and of itself doesn’t work, it needs to be more structured than that.” “So, like…equal opportunities for everyone, putting everyone on the same starting point, and then letting them branch of into their specialist fields and what would be best after that? Equal rights…but then judge on the basis of talent, rather than anything else?”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“The world’s a dangerous place; I’d rather be harmed fighting for this than from something meaningless.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“It’s not hacking,” she protested. “It’s using my resources in a manner that yields more information.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“Gabriel used to love late nights and early mornings. Those moments when most of the world was still dozing and its minds went quiet to him. Not gone – never gone – but they turned to a white noise like the rush of the sea on a beach.
He never used to care about not being able to touch a dreamer’s mind. It was a reprieve, a stolen beat to be alone in his own head without their thoughts and desires tugging him into a dozen different directions.
It took a lot of early mornings as a kid, and late nights as a teenager, and some combination of both as an adult, to begin unpicking what he wanted from the pull of other people’s expectations.
By the time he met Isaac, he knew for sure.
Or, maybe, Isaac was the first thing he’d ever wanted so badly that it couldn’t possibly be anyone else’s.”
― The God Key
He never used to care about not being able to touch a dreamer’s mind. It was a reprieve, a stolen beat to be alone in his own head without their thoughts and desires tugging him into a dozen different directions.
It took a lot of early mornings as a kid, and late nights as a teenager, and some combination of both as an adult, to begin unpicking what he wanted from the pull of other people’s expectations.
By the time he met Isaac, he knew for sure.
Or, maybe, Isaac was the first thing he’d ever wanted so badly that it couldn’t possibly be anyone else’s.”
― The God Key
“I can’t believe you’re telling me to give up! You’re the ones who always taught me to fight for what I believe in…or does that only apply when my belief is the same as everyone else’s?” she demanded.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“Prison…was she a criminal? She didn’t think so. Technically, she was rebelling against the Government, against society, but…she was a criminal in the eyes of a system that was in itself criminal and abhorrent. Who was the villain when both sides truly believed in the rightness of their stance?”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“Everyone in the city was wary to a certain extent - you couldn’t fully trust anyone but yourself - but still.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“He had a very offensive style, much like her, not naturally relying on defence and instead attempting to reject the need for such a thing by not giving opponents the space to form an offensive they would need to defend from.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“To quote Marco Carmel,” he smiled, wryly. “Everyone has something to contribute; you just have to find that something and use it.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
“I’m not saying an instinct reaction isn’t good, and that you should never go with your gut, but don’t…don’t ever throw your life away on a whim, do you understand me? Information is always available somehow, there’s only one of you.”
― Blood Lines
― Blood Lines
