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"Mundane. Boring. She had an inkling that neither would ever accurately describe her life again."

"It was then that she grasped, in the smallest way, the nature of the Command inside her. The will of a god to remake things, to demand they be better.

The power to change."

"They were unraveling. They were failing. They clung to a secret that was escaping despite their best efforts."

"If you truly are sorry you have to take such desperate actions, don’t you owe it to yourself to sit and at least see if there is another way?”

"You didn’t let your friends drown in nameless oceans during a frigid storm. That was, sure, basic friendship rules right there."

“I believe that passionate people make their own luck."

"Omens weren’t real. But the way people reacted to them was very real. Inverting that was all about perspective."

"Tradition. Stronger than Soulcast wood. If only they could find a way to build ships directly out of it, they’d fear no wind or wave."

"Why, why, why? Why do you want to live, Rysn? Why do you want to better your situation?"

"Ah, to be free of the 'but why?'”