Or perhaps it was because we are blind until the knife first takes us, because we believe ourselves immortal until we die.
“And if you burn long enough and bright as I have done, you come back to that simple truth of childhood: the world of the scientists, of engineers and mathematicians, does not exist. We live in stories, in the demon-haunted world of myth. We are heroes and dragons. Evil and divine.”
― Demon in White
― Demon in White
“understanding the ways of God is the primary purpose of science.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“There is pain always, and ugliness, but the light and beauty of the world shine always above and beyond the powers of darkness to destroy.”
― Kingdoms of Death
― Kingdoms of Death
“Critics of the oldest stories used to say that men believe women to be goals, prizes to be won or bought. They did not understand. No man could think such a thing and remain a man, for to love is in part the attempt to become a creature worthy of love.”
― Howling Dark
― Howling Dark
“Her name was Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius. And she would not be afraid.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
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