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“Don't you long for something different to happen, something so exciting and new it carries you along with it like a great tide, something that lets your life blaze and burn so the whole world can see it?”
― Son of the Shadows
― Son of the Shadows
“It seems to me them that sees an evil thing unfold and don't do nothin' to prevent it, are just as bad as them that does the evil.”
― The Singer of All Songs
― The Singer of All Songs
“Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.”
― Child of the Prophecy
― Child of the Prophecy
“This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.”
― The Waterless Sea
― The Waterless Sea
“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”
― Daughter of the Forest
― Daughter of the Forest
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