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Grieve all you want, but someone recently told me that grief without corresponding action is meaningless.

pretending to be someone for long enough the deception grew roots and leaves

Salvation without temptation was meaningless. The failure of a man to recognize his weakness should be met with pity and not blame.

Mother, I did not say. I knew a thing or two about words it cost to speak out loud.

Indrani didn’t say anything, though, because unlike the others she understood that some truths simply stayed with you. Like a scar, or a limp you barely even noticed.

A plan with a single point of failure, after all, was no plan at all.

The true nature of a woman,” Akua said amusedly, “is only ever revealed after she has been prodded

I would wager that, to the likes of the Dead King, every bridge is a drawbridge if given sufficient attention

And so Triumphant said: 'Tremble, for I am not yet content.

You are in need of a reminder, Catherine Foundling, of the difference between bravery and ignorance

Do not hesitate, dearest Catherine,” Akua Sahelian said. “If you are to cut the world, it is best to have a steady hand

“You are about to begin a journey, Catherine Foundling. They will hound you,” Neshamah said, “to the ends of Creation. No matter where you flee, no matter how you plead and bargain and reason. They will scour the impurities from you until all that is left is the devil they feared all along. And when you rise from that grave of ash, crawling through blood and smoke?” He smiled. “I will be waiting on the other side.”

Hesitation is never a virtue: faltering is only ever the mother of agony.

there is nothing more dangerous than allowing the others to grasp your heart's desire

If a clever opponent makes a foolish mistake,” Hakram added, “it is either not a mistake or not that opponent’s doing.

Is it really a lock if it breaks?

How the higher you rise, the more power comes into the shape of others suffering for you

We are not debating. I am awaiting your final silence.

Because in the end, if there was only damnation I would rather be damned out of error than fear.

he who rides the Ebb must beware of the Flow

She’d run with heroes once, the thief remembered. Men and women who’d carried the broken pieces of their old lives with them just as the Woe did

If there were such people out there, they have not come,” Hakram said. “You compare yourself to ghosts of your own making.

Never take a blow unless you have to, much less if you do not know what it will do.

a world of endless paths, and someone to walk them with her

Perfection is the enemy of functionality

Never prone to using a dagger when a spot of genocide would work

Making virtues of one’s flaws does not mean those flaws are gone

The only sin was death, for death was failure

It was a strange thing to outlive one’s despair, and stranger still to pass beyond it

maybe, just maybe, one day we will be what we pretend we are

The most useful talent is that which no one knows you have

What does it matter if I mourn it, when I do it anyway

You can stop, or you can own it, I thought. Anything else is hypocrisy

How strange it must be, to always act like there is an audience

My flaws are many, but no excuse for yours

Judgement only has meaning coming from one worthy of casting it

Was compromise on my own terms even compromise at all, or just victory by another name

"It's always the need for control that fucks us, isn't it?" I mused.