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The word loss was inadequate. Loss just meant a lack, meant something was missing, but it did not encompass the totality of this severance, this terrifying un-anchoring from all that he’d ever known.
“God didn’t save them. He let them die screaming in the dark,”
― All the Sinners Bleed
― All the Sinners Bleed
“Everyone thinks that courage is about facing death without flinching. But almost anyone can do that. Almost anyone can hold their breath and not scream for as long as it takes to die. True courage is facing life without flinching. I don’t mean the times when the right path is hard, but glorious at the end. I’m talking about enduring the boredom, and the messiness, and the inconvenience of doing what is right.”
― Mad Ship
― Mad Ship
“It doesn’t matter how many times you break yourself, the gods don’t care.”
― Alchemised
― Alchemised
“Horror,” Treila offers, “shapes character. And it did happen.”
― The Starving Saints
― The Starving Saints
“no matter how hard she tried, she could remember nothing more of her past. Terror had wiped her memory clean.”
― The Butterfly Girl
― The Butterfly Girl
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