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There is no logic to grief.

There is an art to smiling in a way that others will believe. It is always important to include the eyes; otherwise, people will know you hate them.

magic redistribution.

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough.

For all those that have to fight for the respect that everyone else is given without question.

It was said that the gods favored fools because they were entertaining to watch.

It's a geode. You can sess that, the way the rock around you abruptly changes to

(Useful fact: mortals rarely look up.)

Love is no inoculation against murder.

I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

The body fades. A leader who would last relies on more.

But this is what it means to be civilized - doing what her betters say she should, for the ostensible good of all.

The Nightlord cannot be controlled, child. He can only be unleashed. And you asked him not to kill.

Who misses what they have never, ever even imagined?

Home is people," she says to Asael, softly. Asael blinks. "Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind." Heresmith

With epic fantasy, there is a tendency for it to be quintessentially conservative in that its job is to restore what is perceived to be out of whack.

You pretended to hate him because you were a coward. But you eventually loved him, and he is a part of you now, because you have since grown brave.

But if you stay, no part of this comm gets to decide that any part of this comm is expendable. No voting on who gets to be people.

Wounds get better. What makes grief get better?" "Nothing. Time can ease it, but nothing ends it.

Of course I was enough, because he loved me. That was the whole point.

And what do they even call this? It's not a threesome, or a love triangle. It's a two-and-a-half-some, an affection dihedron.

Earth's flaming farts, it worked!

True dreamers are both geniuses and madmen. Most lands can tolerate only a few, and those die young.

But Schaffa is a grown-up, and grown-ups need their sleep; that's what her father always said whenever she or Chaga did something that woke him up.

Didn't want to wait for death to come for you. Right. Stupid, stupid woman. Death was always here. Death is you.

The body fades. A leader who lasts relies on more.

There are many of us now. Enough to be called a people in ourselves and not merely a mistake.

Complaining about nothing doesn't seem like coping to you, but okay.

(It is surprising how refreshing this feels. Being judged by what you do, and not what you are.) Lately

The opposite of liking is not disliking, after all. The opposite of liking is apathy.

After all, a person is herself, and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being.

Only learning oneself better, and understanding one's place in the world, made the touch of another mundane.

Because I think I saw you, yesterday morning when I woke up. I think my eyes worked again, just for a moment, and you were the light I saw.

Whether you live or die is irrelevant. You are Arameri, and like all of us, you will serve.

Urgency and despair don't get along well.

keep the magma down, at least until it finds another, slower way to wend its way to the surface.

Real love lasts years. It causes pain, and endures through it.

Sieh was a horrible father and a wretched friend and a barely competent employee, completely unworthy of being missed or mourned.

Being useful to others is not the same thing as being equal.

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining.

The look on her face is one of horror, or perhaps sorrow so great that it might as well be horror. Past a certain point, it's all the same thing.

You have seen so much purposeless suffering that at least being killed for a reason can be borne?

Determination could easily become obsession.

It is important to give just the right instructions. He thinks in loopholes.

...tears would have made him feel weak. Men have always been fragile that way.

There's truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.

(This is not a digression.)

Think you hate me because ... I'm someone you can hate. I'm here, I'm handy. But what you really hate is the world.

No, I'm telling this wrong. After all a person is herself and others. Relationships chisel the final shape of one's being. I am me and you.

Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid.

There was nothing we mortals would not do when it came to protecting our loved ones.

It had not been all suffering and horror. Life is never only one thing.

newborns eventually ignore the lonely silence of a world without heartbeats.

Everyone _shouldn't_ have a say in whose life is worth fighting for.

Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.

There is nothing foolish about hope.

Desperation makes for poor stealth.

Beware ground on loose rock. Beware hale strangers. Beware sudden silence. - Tablet One, "On Survival," verse three

Fear of a bully, fear of a volcano; the power within you does not distinguish. It does not recognize degree.

Loneliness is a darkness of the soul

Fear was like poison to mortals; it killed their rationality.

Peace is meaningless without freedom.

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Once upon a time there was a
Stop this. It's undignified.

Reconciliations are for after the violence has ended.

Grief sounds like a bad thing," I said, frowning. "Why don't you and Naha and Mama get rid of it?" "That would require removing love from existence.

His faith sustains him - and faith is so easy to break.

It's a gift if it makes us better. It's a curse if we let it destroy us.

Choose how your nature shapes you. Embrace it. Find the strength in it.

Then she wonders why a part of her is trying to find value in degradation.

Inevitable is not the same as immediate, Sieh
and love does not mandate forgiveness.

We worship Him not because He is the best of our gods, but because He is, or was, the greatest killer among them.

The way I see it, a stranger feels like a stranger; a friend feels like a friend. Simple.

They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

Home is what you take with you, not what you leave behind.

Nothing to do but follow your crazy,

Love betrayed has an entirely different sound from hatred outright.

He has come to seduce the god of seduction, and oh, has he come prepared.

Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?

But it is one thing to resolve to die, quite another to actually carry out that resolve in the midst of dying. Something

Immortality gets very, very boring. You'd be surprised at how interesting the small mundanities of life can seem after a few millennia.

It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.

If the gods do decide to wipe us out, is it such a bad thing? Maybe we've earned a little annihilation.

We can never be gods, after all
but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.

It is not safe to hate the Arameri. Instead we hate their weapons, because weapons do not care.

But perhaps that was just the way of power: no such thing as too much.

Did you know that writing stories down kills them?
Of course it does, words aren't meant to be stiff, unchanging things.

It takes great strength to compromise, Shahar. More than it does to threaten and destroy, since you must fight your own pride as well as the enemy.

The priest's lesson: beware the Nightlord, for his pleasure is a mortal's doom. My grandmother's lesson: beware love, especially with the wrong man.

When the reasoning mind is forced to confront the impossible again and again, it has no choice but to adapt. So

It is important to appreciate beauty, even when it is evil.

Let's start with the end of the world, why don't we? Get it over with and move on to more interesting things.

I am not as I once was. They have done this to me, broken me open and torn out my heart. I do not know who I am anymore. I must try to remember.

How terrible to be a god of change and endure grief unending.

Someday, you must tell me what it's like there. Why all who come out of that place seem so very competent... and so very afraid.

In the future, as in the present, as in the past, black people will build many new worlds.
This is true. I will make it so. And you will help me.

Men who served anyone could be trusted by no one.

Any woman can face the world alone, but why should we have to?

When things are bad, change is good, right? Change means things will get better.

Honor in safety, survival under threat. Better a living coward than a dead hero.