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“We are beasts of burden, Hadrian, we men. We struggle, and by that struggle are filled, and so define ourselves. That is the way.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark

“But then, so few of us truly think themselves evil. They simply think good and evil matters of opinion, and seek to impose their opinion—which is evil—on good. Nothing is evil in its beginning, it only grows that way.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Demon in White

“But might a germ not slay even the mightiest of dragons?”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Shadows Upon Time

“To love is in part the attempt to become a creature worthy of love.”
― Christopher Ruocchio, Howling Dark