“Piety can turn the power-hungry into monsters,” Ead said. “They can twist any teaching to justify their actions.”


“Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season

“Tell them they can be great someday, like us. Tell them they belong among us, no matter how we treat them. Tell them they must earn the respect which everyone else receives by default. Tell them there is a standard for acceptance; that standard is simply perfection. Kill those who scoff at those contradictions, and tell the rest that the dead deserved annihilation for their weakness and doubt. Then they'll break themselves trying for what they'll never achieve”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season

“When we say “the world has ended,” it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine. But this is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. This is the way the world ends. For the last time.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season

“Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.”
― The Fifth Season
― The Fifth Season
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