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Mark Gerlach
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I stood, I jumped, I stamped, I shrieked, lay on the ground, I beat my breast and wailed. Yet the child I held so tight Has flown beyond my clasp. Is this our world’s way?
“I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
“The stars, they are as the sun. Each star. Every star. And those spheres- they are worlds, realms, each one different yet the same.”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
― Dune
― Dune
“We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.”
― Midnight Tides
― Midnight Tides
“Shadow is ever besieged, for that is its nature. Whilst darkness devours, and light steals. And so one sees shadow ever retreat to hidden places, only to return in the wake of the war between dark and light.”
― House of Chains
― House of Chains
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