Ali

“Haven’t you ever wondered why Father is so strict about our subservience? It’s because disobedience is creation,” a shivering breath, “create with me, Michael, and let’s call it sin.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

“AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream.

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― Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

“Drop the gun, Bandit.” Malik sneered. “There’s only one man who gets to call me that,” I said. “And you’re not near as good-looking as him.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Traitor to the Throne

“Once there was a boy from the sea who fell in love with a girl from the desert.
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But he wondered if a boy from the sea and a girl from the desert could ever survive together. He feared that she might burn him alive or that he might drown her. Until finally he stopped fighting it and set himself on fire for her.”
― Alwyn Hamilton, Hero at the Fall