“People died so that we could live. Others suffered so that we may prosper. That is the way of the world. To believe otherwise is to never grow up.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“The stories are everywhere, you cannot avoid them. Every day you tell a story to yourself; the details of your day become a part of your myth. It is reordered. It is made sense of.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“You can fault the dancer, but more often than not, it is the dance itself that has to change.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“One cannot go charging headfirst into battle; heart alone will not win the day; the warrior who does not plan, plans to fail. Trite missives of glory won, and all but useless in this grim scenario.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“But a part of me still revolts against the notion that this is our basic nature; that we are, in essence, self-serving creatures. That love is an explainable construct and souls are a pretty feint to distract ourselves from our own cruel emptiness.”
― The Vanished Birds
― The Vanished Birds
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