“Just looking at them, he felt a pressure building in his chest. This world may be full of greed and tragedy and darkness, but I am fortunate beyond measure to have such people about me.”
― Valor
― Valor
“I’ve done bad things, sure enough, or been party to them. But things are different now. I’m different now. Got a cause to fight for. Friends. People I believe in. Can’t change the past, but I can be a better man now.”
― Wrath
― Wrath
“He frowned. ‘Are you all right?’ ‘Gave as good as I got,’ she mumbled.”
― Valor
― Valor
“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“Life with a cheat code isn't life. Our existence isn't something to be engineered or optimized for the avoidance of pain. That's what it is to be human - the beauty and the pain, each meaningless without the other.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
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