It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory.
“War, famine, disease, genocide. Death, in a million different forms, often painful and protracted for the poor individual wretches involved. What god would so arrange the universe to predispose its creations to experience such suffering, or be the cause of it in others?”
― Matter
― Matter
“Accord dissolves but blame is impossible to assign, leading to malaise, confusion and a vacuous resentment.”
― Forge of Darkness
― Forge of Darkness
“Do I look like a fucking slave to you?” he asked them. And though, finally, they would bring him down with sheer weight of numbers, none who heard him ask that question lived to see the dawn.”
― The Cold Commands
― The Cold Commands
“We're all small and harmless once, Archidi. But we all grow up. And some of us grow up needing killing.”
― The Dark Defiles
― The Dark Defiles
“There were many kinds of freedom, and the most precious ones were secret.”
― Forge of Darkness
― Forge of Darkness
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