“even I cannot deny how difficult it can be, to accept that sometimes, to survive, we must change our course.”
― 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
“One might think it amazing that in face of such overwhelming evidence, no effort was made to save themselves. But though I cannot help but wish that when the world quirks and shudders, we have the wherewithal to listen, even I cannot deny how difficult it can be, to accept that sometimes, to survive, we must change our course.”
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
― The Spear Cuts Through Water
“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
“We must take care not to let the bliss of the present fade when compared to supposedly better days. We’re happy, sure, but were we more happy then? If we let it, memories can make shadows of the now, as nothing can match the buttressed legends of our past.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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