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“Change your name, if you must. Divorce yourself from your actions. But become the man the world needs, even if it a man whom you despise.”

“The day on which you decide not to question what you believe, is the day that you start making excuses for why you believe it.”

“But she wasn’t Asha.” 😏

“Fate is the master of everyone in this world, and no one with a master is ever truly free.”

“Even if our choices are inevitable, it doesn’t mean that they are not our own.”

“Because the truth, Devaed, is that even if you are right? It doesn’t matter. You cannot deny that we are prisoners of whatever force has burdened this world with inevitability— and what is the point of living if we cannot truly make our own choices? What is the point of living without possibility?”

“In short, Tal’kamar, we are puppets. We live in a prison of inevitability. A mirage of choice.”

“The lesser of two evils, and the the greater good. The most dangerous phrases in the world.”

“For I did not know which was harder to bear: The echo of her passing, or the long silence that followed.”