“Death isn’t frightening when weighed against an insignificant existence.”
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
“There once was a girl,” he murmured, “clever and good, who tarried in shadow in the depths of the wood. There also was a King—a shepherd by his crook, who reigned over magic and wrote the old book. The two were together, so the two were the same: “The girl, the King… and the monster they became.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
“Be wary. Be clever. Be good.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
“It is not they who bring the reckoning, Ravyn. It is you. It is us.”
― One Dark Window
― One Dark Window
“Eight of the ten commandments are about what thou shalt not. But you can live a whole life not doing any of that stuff and still avoid doing any good. That’s the whole crisis. The rot at the root of everything. The belief that goodness is built on a constructed absence, not-doing. That belief corrupts everything, has everyone with any power sitting on their hands.”
― Martyr!
― Martyr!
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