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“You think your mind is a blank slate, where you can build your own networks of information from scratch, through pure logic and reason. You ignore that each child enters a completely unique world, founded on different truths. We build our reality on the foundation our world sets for us. You entered a world where magic is corrosive and Jasadis are inherently evil. I entered one where turning a shoe into a dove made my mother laugh. Have you considered, in that infinite mind of yours, that the truly brilliant people are the ones who understand the realities we build were already built for us?”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Heir

“The truth is you can never truly make amends for the hurt you cause; you apologize, you try to atone, at best the scars lighten but they don't disappear.
You live with the pain that you pained someone.”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Early Departures

“Weak is a ruler who holds a match to the world and then blames it for burning.”
― Sara Hashem, The Jasad Crown

“It's odd.

How a road you've never traveled feels cursed?

How sometimes it's the things that don't happen that haunt us the hardest.”
― Justin A. Reynolds, Early Departures