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“The oldest argument for doing something wrong is that everyone is doing it. To dismantle what they have built would have required the agreement of every man who had spent his life building it," agrees my father softly. "It would have required them to give up all they have striven their entire lives to gain. And they would have needed to do it, largely, for the benefit of those at whose expense it originally came.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

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“Sorry, dear chap,” he said softly to the boy, “no resurrection for you! Save that which is given to the trees and leaves and fauna of all this world, to be fed upon and turned into life anew. And isn’t that holy enough?”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, A Trade of Blood

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“Show me a man who regrets nothing and I’ll show you a man who’s achieved nothing.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Devils

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“DEATH, EIDHIN ONCE INSISTED WHILE explaining the ddram cyfraith, is our most important horizon. It matters because we need an end to what we can see. Without it we would drift, overwhelmed, nothing to orient ourselves against. Without it, we would never be able to focus on what is truly important: that which is in front of us.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

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“Grief, my mother once told me, is love’s most honest expression. The last and hardest aspect of truly, truly caring for someone. She said it at her own mother’s funeral rites, tears in her eyes even as she tried to comfort a boy too young to understand why he was so sad, why his grandmother couldn’t be there anymore. She explained through choking sobs that without grief, love would be meaningless. Because it is impossible to truly love something that cannot be lost.”
― James Islington, The Strength of the Few

tags: grief, loss, love

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