“But you know as well as any guilty party that no one thought stands alone. That there is a city within you, populated by both high- and lowborn beliefs, interjections, prayers, rantings.”
― 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
“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
“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
“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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