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― Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
― Persian Fire: The First World Empire, Battle for the West - 'Magisterial' Books of the Year, Independent
“Life is a puzzle with no answer; a game with no rules; a maze with no exit, except death. And still we stumble on through the dark, creating form where there is none, seeing patterns that are not there.”
― The Raven Scholar
― The Raven Scholar
“We’re all good men until we’re pushed to the edge. Then you either die a good man, or the good man in you dies.”
― Gunmetal Gods
― Gunmetal Gods
“Peace is mutual. War is unilateral. When war comes, it does so without your blessing or your vote.”
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“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother couldn’t be there anymore. She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
― The Strength of the Few
― The Strength of the Few
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