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
“Her name was Aelin Ashryver Whitethorn Galathynius. And she would not be afraid.”
― Throne of Glass
― Throne of Glass
“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
“A duel was a dance. This was not something beautiful, and he was no poet.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“Deep truths there may be, but none is deeper than this: Those lost to us do not return, nor the years turn back. Rather it is that we carry a piece of those lost to us within ourselves, or on our backs. Thus ghosts are real, and we never escape them.”
― Howling Dark
― Howling Dark
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