“Empathy for an enemy's pain was good, but you couldn't let that lead you into the fallacy of accepting their actions.”
― Defiant
― Defiant
“We all don clothes that do not fit, and hope we will grow into them.”
― The Fragile Threads of Power
― The Fragile Threads of Power
“And that was the madness, the cruelty, that life was fragile, and he had so much to love, and spent all his time mourning the loss before he suffered it.”
― The Fragile Threads of Power
― The Fragile Threads of Power
“As a kid, I’d have said that courage destroys fear. Now, I’d have said that fear is what lets us be able to be courageous.”
― Defiant
― Defiant
“She only got two kinds of looks: appraising, and skeptical. Those who saw her as a woman, and those who saw her as a girl. Both looks made her feel like a sack of grain being weighed, but she hated the latter more, that way it was meant to make her feel small. The fact, sometimes, it did.”
― The Fragile Threads of Power
― The Fragile Threads of Power
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