“the war taught me that nothing counts as much as loyalty" "Bullshit. you still haven't learned that when humans are under pressure, we're all willing to lie" "even to the people we care?" "we lie more to our loved ones, because we care about them so damn much. why do you think we tell the truth to priests and shrinks and total strangers we meet on trains? it's because we don't love them, so we don't care what they think.”
― Code to Zero
― Code to Zero
“The gods have been kicking us around for a long time. When do we say enough?'
'And in their absence, High Fist, will we manage things any better?'
'No,' Paran said, walking past him 'but at least then we won't have the option of blaming someone else.”
― The Crippled God
'And in their absence, High Fist, will we manage things any better?'
'No,' Paran said, walking past him 'but at least then we won't have the option of blaming someone else.”
― The Crippled God
“Maybe it's not in the perfection of life that things make sense, but in the chaos.”
― Ruin
― Ruin
“Nothing is so essential as dignity…Time will reveal who has it and who has it not.”
― The Signature of All Things
― The Signature of All Things
“In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that.
The gods rule us still, they have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”
― Red Queen
The gods rule us still, they have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind.”
― Red Queen
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