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“There are rules, naturally, but you don't need a trip to the Pattern Jugglers to understand them.”

“I swear, my dear. Sometimes our conversations remind me of a broken sword.”
She raised an eyebrow.
“Sharp as hell,” Lightsong said, “but lacking a point.”

“Heroes are defined not by what they do, after all, or why, but by what people think they have done.”

“We are all flawed and creatures of our times. Is it fair to judge us by the unknown standards of the future?”

Magic fades from the world but, in truth, most problems have always been better solved with a few sharp words. Or a little sharp steel.

omg, i need those graphic novels asap! 😱

“Perhaps I cannot say which is more annoying.” 🤣

"That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day."

Honestly, I would also request room transfer if my roommate sorted socks this way 🙈

"Death is the only lighthouse that is always lit. No matter where you sail, ultimately, you must turn toward it. Everything fades in the world, but Death endures."

that damn droplet... 😱

'(...) the braiding of my hair into pigtails.
I had tried everything I could think of to make it an adventure. I had pretended that I was a pirate, lashed to the mainmast in a howling hurricane, splicing the only rope that could secure the last remaining sail.
Right over left … and up … and under. Left over right …
“Ha, ha, me hearties. Simple as sin. Break out the grog!”
But it was no use.'

Damn son, that "Keeping Score" chapter... 🤭 If it isn't the best character introduction ever written, I do not know which one is.
I have been rendered speechless.
Savine 🙌

“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: if we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”

“Abra-abra-cadabra . . . I wanna reach out and grab ya . . .”
I got scared a bit already, lolz. Started great, I love it so far!

“When you think about what stories have to teach us, you probably think about love, conflict, the human condition. But I also think about computation. When Shakespeare’s Juliet asks, “What’s in a name?” she is on to an important question about representation. Albert Camus’s The Myth of Sisyphus raises the question of how to face the absurdity of life and also how to detect a never-ending computation.”

"I had swept my broken bits of life from the game table. Now there was room to set out anew what pieces I still had, to plot a new strategy for living. Slowly, I realized I had no doubts. Regrets warred with relief, but I had no doubts. Somehow it was much more bearable to move forward into a life where no one would recall who I had once been. A life not pledged to someone else's will."