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"Focus on me, Sperro," I say, lowering my voice, hoping he can hear me through the din. Sperro, the Lights want to claim you, heal you, save you for Their own, but you must choose Them.

"He will become immortal!" Callidus says.
"He was already born unto immortality! We all are," I shout, defying, Callidus. "But going into the abyss, killing all light, will strip him of that inheritance. It will only leave him ceaselessly blind. What right have you to forge your lack of vision over the life of a Lectus Born!”

Do not listen to him, Sperro, I think, hoping he will hear me. It is not greatness; it never was. It is misery. It is nothingness.

"I will not fear. I will not fear. There is no place for it here"
Fear is essential. Fear is what gives you visions of things as they really are. Fear is what keeps you from being deceived.
“That is not true," I say, giving a desperate laugh. But the cloying voice is wrapping around me, and I'm no longer certain.

“Every soul in the nations wants to end me,” he states. “It seems that some Being in the vast skies thinks you’re worth saving.”

“I wasn’t ready for it, the flood of connection with the Lights. I wasn’t ready for the astonishing reality that the work of healing – in its pure form – has nothing to do with me, that what was required of me was to stand in my place, and to offer my effort and my focus, while witnessing a re-creation.”

“They are both beautiful, as if created by an affectionate artist.”

RIP that I won’t get this book back for months.

“You cannot counter darkness with what is dark! You’ll only give whatever curse this is strength in the end!” “Then how,” he lifts his darkened eyes to mine, “would you suggest I deal with this treachery?” “Light!” I insist. “Light drives out the deepest darkness. It is the only thing powerful enough.”

“I think the light within you,” I begin, “will fight as long as any part of you wants illumination more than darkness. That instinct is not easily killed, for it is guided by the compass the Lights placed inside your own heart.”