“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
“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
“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
“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
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