Nocticadia
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My social anxiety came courtesy of my mother, who’d always shunned the notion that people were inherently good. In her eyes, everyone was a serial killer until proven otherwise, and somehow, a small bit of that paranoia had manifested in me
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“I am the hope of the universe. I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace. I am protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth. Ally to good! Nightmare to you!”
― Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 10: Goku vs. Freeza
― Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 10: Goku vs. Freeza
“You’re like a rose in a graveyard. I wonder what you could have turned into without the war”
― Manacled
― Manacled
“Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.”
― Daughter of the Forest
― Daughter of the Forest
“Knowledge is power, but it is a terrible power when it is hoarded and hidden.”
― The Girl Who Drank the Moon
― The Girl Who Drank the Moon
“The best swordsman in the world doesn't need to fear the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a sword in his hand before; he doesn't do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn't prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do; and often it catches the expert out and ends him on the spot.”
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