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She reminded me of home—the eyes, mostly, like she was watching a slaughter through binoculars and was getting bored. Maybe all mothers were the same.
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“Burning was a bad way to go, but my reserves of empathy were usually exhausted on orphans and puppies, a lot higher up the list than arsonists and
arseholes.”
― Blackwing
arseholes.”
― Blackwing
“When we weigh up the balance sheet of our lives, it's always easy to see the costs. People we've hurt, mistakes we've made. But the other side of the balance can be harder to make out. How do you measure what didn't happen? Friends who didn't die because of something you did, wars that didn't start, cities that never burned. That has to count for something, doesn't it?"
"You can't know what would have happened," Winter said. "Maybe everyone would have been better off."
"It's possible," Abraham said placidly. "But you can't know that for certain, either. Out of all the possible worlds, we can't know if this is the best, the worst, or somewhere in between. But it's one we've got.”
― The Infernal Battalion
"You can't know what would have happened," Winter said. "Maybe everyone would have been better off."
"It's possible," Abraham said placidly. "But you can't know that for certain, either. Out of all the possible worlds, we can't know if this is the best, the worst, or somewhere in between. But it's one we've got.”
― The Infernal Battalion
“The most important things we have are dreams," Isabelle said. "Without them we cannot conjure new truths or better worlds. Where we get into trouble is when we tell ourselves dreams don't matter, or we let other people tell us our dreams are silly or stupid. I dream of peace, and I won't give it up.”
― An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
― An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
“No matter what you did, forty or fifty or a hundred years passed and everything became a narrative to be toyed with, masters of media alchemy splitting the truth's nucleus into a ricocheting cascade reaction of diverging alternate realities.”
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
― The Only Harmless Great Thing
“After a moment he added, "Though if you do find it necessary to execute me, I request that my funeral include a tower of horse shit burned in my honor."
Grand Leon glanced at him from the corner of his eye. "In the tradition of a great hero being sent off with his preferred weapon?"
"Yes, sire.”
― An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
Grand Leon glanced at him from the corner of his eye. "In the tradition of a great hero being sent off with his preferred weapon?"
"Yes, sire.”
― An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors
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