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“Weaknesses were a human invention. They called it your weakness if they fantasized about murdering you with it.”
― John Wiswell, Someone You Can Build a Nest In

“Why do I have to tell a story?” I asked.
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Inheritance Games

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. But, sad or merry, I must leave it now. Farewell. - Thorin”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, or There and Back Again

“I’ve been to that graveyard. It’s all tents and concrete.”
“Yes, but it’s the first place people will assume necromancers will go, and people like to shoot first and ask questions later,” said the Angel, “or worst case, maybe a necromancer will be there. I know we think they’d have the blue madness, but what we know is that we don’t know anything, okay? I want you lot to make that your motto. What we know is that we don’t know anything.”
Nona quite liked this motto. It was an accurate summary of her entire life.”
― Tamsyn Muir, Nona the Ninth