“I am a Namer.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“I was imprisoned, and no-one freed me.
I cried for help, and no-one freed me.
Eventually, I shook off my chains and I returned.
They said, 'Why do you no longer love us?'
I said, 'I realized that you have always been my chains.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
I cried for help, and no-one freed me.
Eventually, I shook off my chains and I returned.
They said, 'Why do you no longer love us?'
I said, 'I realized that you have always been my chains.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“Punching your companions is unhelpful. Go into the forest and practice unarmed combat against a tree.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies. True friends help you move the bodies of those who turned out not to have been friends to begin with.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
“Stories. They only belong to the people if the people demand to speak.”
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
― There and Never, Ever Back Again: Diary of a Dark Lord
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