Had I not known who he was and met him on the street, I would’ve thought him one of the high mages from the local college, the type who could decipher three-thousand-year-old runes, speak a half-dozen dead languages, and level a city block
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“No, Mam’ll skin me if I’m caught fighting again.”
― Malice
― Malice
“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
“He has wondered lately if that's all living really is—one long goodbye to those we love.”
― Recursion
― Recursion
“What is it?’ Marrock asked. ‘It’s a book,’ Brina said. ‘When we’ve read it we’ll tell you what’s in it, which is what I think you meant to ask.”
― 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
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