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41 " Truth might hurt more at first, but lies hurt forever. "
― Courtney M. Privett , Spellkeeper
42 " I can't be free of this place, this haunted torture chamber echoing with thousands of years of blighted history. I can paint the walls, but I can't scrape the malice from the mortar. I can burn the curtains, but the blood splattered upon them only transitions to ash that stains the hearth. "
― Courtney M. Privett , Rain Falls on Malora
43 " Sometimes we all lose our way, but we aren’t the path. We’re the destination. "
― Courtney M. Privett , Emberstorm
44 " You can be scared. We all are. The trick is to not let that fear take you over. Let it simmer, let it wrap itself around you to keep you alert, but don’t let it become you. "
45 " The only monsters in this world are men and myths. "
― Courtney M. Privett , Huron
46 " He's dead, but he still chases me. He wrote fear into my mind with ink fashioned from his own blood. His words are stamped upon the shadows, gnats swarming about my shoulders. "
47 " So much of what we hear about forgiveness is wrong. It’s no virtue, and it’s a forced lie unless it happens naturally. We pretend to forgive, trick ourselves into it, because we’re expected to by people who don’t want to be made uncomfortable, not to relieve our own pain. It’s so one-sided, so dismissive, so quick to call a lack of forgiveness some sort of failing by the person who was wronged. "
48 " I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are. "