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1 " Sorry if this little war’s inconvenienced you in any way,” Indris drawled. “I’ll try to schedule the next one with you in mind "
― Mark T. Barnes , The Garden of Stones (Echoes of Empire, #1)
2 " Perception is often stronger than reality. It is easier for us to see what we believe than it is for us to believe what we see. "
3 " Nothing fills the air with the smoke of funeral pyres so much as loyalty. "
4 " Why do we invent the monster as a metaphor? Surely all we need do is witness our own cruelty to each other to see the real face of evil. "
5 " Wenn sie am Leben ist, dann ist sie an dem Ort, an den sie das Schicksal geführt hat. Doch es scheint, der Ort ist weder hier noch jetzt noch bei dir. "
6 " They’re the victors. They’ll write the history. Inconvenient truths will be forgotten soon enough. "
7 " Swap you a song for your thoughts? "
8 " Love dies by steps. The footfalls of fear, resentment, anger, and spite kill love, little by little. It withers. It tarnishes. It passes away, poisoned, ill, and wounded beyond all power to heal. "
9 " Though they show me where I die, and take my love away from me, they can't change my destiny, these villains and their treachery. "
10 " Is it a greater tragedy to achieve all one’s desires or to lose them all? "
11 " With every act of vengeance we murder part of ourselves. "
12 " neither yesterday nor tomorrow exist, for everything happens in the now, and that all things share the one moment. "