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“...if no one knows a man can control a demon, he can do anything with it. Get away with murder, even.”
― Vanessa Le, When Shadows Burn

“...You’ve lost your faith amd you think I’m crudely flattering you; but how much have you lived so far? How much do you understand? He came up with a theory, and now he’s ashamed because it didn’t work…I regard you as one of those men who could have their guts cut out, who would stand and look at his torturers with a smile—provided he’s found faith, or God. Well, go and find it, and you will live…I know belief doesn’t come easily—but don’t be too clever about it, just give yourself directly to life, without reasoning; don’t worry—it will carry you straight to shore and set you on your feet…”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Ah, don’t disdain life!' Porfiry went on. “You still have a lot of it ahead of you…’
‘A lot of what ahead of me?’
‘Of life! What, are you a prophet? How much do you know? Seek and ye shall find. Maybe it’s just here that God has been waiting for you.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Sometimes, he wondered if that was when his parents had started resenting him…they’d named him Kiet. The way Halberrans pronounced it—flatly, with no intonation—meant “rarity” in the Renisian tongue. But, add a questioning lilt, an upward stroke above the e, and his name meant “disease”’.”
― Vanessa Le, When Shadows Burn