“You tried to help the people of the market. You mostly failed. This is life. The longer you live, the more you fail. Failure is the mark of a life well lived. In turn, the only way to live without failure is to be of no use to anyone. Trust me, I've practiced”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“But, in the end, joy cannot fend off evil.
Joy can only remind you why you fight.”
― Dead Astronauts
Joy can only remind you why you fight.”
― Dead Astronauts
“People need stories, child. They bring us hope, and that hope is real. If that's the case, what does it matter whether people in them actually lived?”
― Skyward
― Skyward
“One can believe in a story without believing it happened.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
“Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it.”
― Oathbringer
― Oathbringer
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