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So far this is like exactly the same as book 1, we shall continue

This is a DNF for me unfortunately

“Time is the Mercy of Eternity, or so the poets say. But the mind makes Eternity of Time.”

“Always accuse the enemy of what you’re doing.”

“If I’m going to die, I want to go knowing I left you safe and right with yourself.”
“Even if it means the ruin of your legacy?…If it means you die a footnote in your own history?”

Ohh no, not again.

“The High Magistry controls the history books, Freynan. You know that. If they don’t want Tiran to remember something, then within a few short generations, it will be buried.”

“The way I was orphaned… It’s not something I can compare to the crossing. I understand that. But I’m also starting to understand that the culture that had my mother die alone, that left me without a father is the same culture that orphaned you. The experiences aren’t the same, but they’re all connected.”

“That was the canonized destiny of men like Derrith Bringham. They did what a man was supposed to: they revered and obeyed the men who had come before them, strove for greatness in the model of their predecessors, and, in the end, they were rewarded with power, acclaim, and dominion over lesser beings—a small godhood of their own.”

Sciona moral dilemma on if she is a good person

“The second man has no such good intentions. Every decision he makes is out of self-interest, spite, intent to harm, or… whatever motivations his culture might deem unsavoury… The majority of his actions end up changing his community for the better.

…Who is the good man?”

The first man lives his whole life with good intentions, every decision made because he believes it to align with his values... The majority of his well-intentioned decisions end in disaster for others.”
“And the second man?”

So it’s the Iron Dome, got it got it

Oh I just know Bringham’s a gaslighting accomplice 😤

“I wonder what they died for”

I knew it was going to be devastating but my goshhh

It’s like an AU of Alchemized and Katabasis and I’m loving it

“The universe has no center, they say .. and yet the universe is infinite. Is not then every point the center of the universe, surrounded on all sides by infinite space?… Every place is the center of the universe. Everything matters.
Every one of our actions, every decision, every sacrifice.
Nothing is without meaning, because nothing is without consequence.”

“In politics, principle is like a sword aimed at the heart. Far better, one might be forgiven for thinking, for a lord to have no principles than to risk that he might fall on that sword. The principled man simply has more to lose.
It is what makes them such fabulous villains.”

“Then I turned to go, trying not to think of … Thousands who burned along with him on his pyre.
There were not even atoms left to bury. The blast would have reduced him and his crew and every strut and deckplate of the Androzani to pure energy.
That energy, too, would fall upon the face of some nameless child in an age ten thousand years hence, and they might wonder to look upon so brit and brilliant a star.”