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121 " Hades:“Somebody’s got to warn them,” he insisted, “so the news doesn’t destroy them.”Joseph Rice: “It sounds good in theory,” I told him, “but in practice, where death is concerned, it’s quite tricky to pull off. "
― Julie Berry , Lovely War
122 " It’s good to see something that was lovingly and carefully made. The war makes it feel as though all humans have ever done is destroy. "
123 " Pick any name, and watch for it long enough, and send up a silent prayer of thanks when you don’t find it on a death list, and pretty soon, if what you feel isn’t love, what is it? "
124 " You know that I can never be the boy you used to know.”She pulled away from his hands. “But that’s who I see,” she said. “The only boy I see.”He closed his eyes tightly. “What I’ve done, and what I’ve seen, will always be with me.”This was the last time she would make this plea. “Let me, too, always be with you. "
125 " Grief is not a contest. What happened was horrible. No one should face it. Especially not from their own countrymen. It’s a crime against humanity. Against decency and reason. "
126 " I waited once to kiss you and almost lost my chance. I waited for the war to end before asking you to marry me, and you nearly died. If the war’s taught me anything at all, it’s that life is short. I won’t waste any more of it waiting for you. "
127 " As a man of the cloth, Hephaestus, I can't condone your methods, much as I admire your handiwork. 'If you love something, you must set it free.'""Bet that's not what you told persephone. "
128 " Far be it from me to ever cast a shadow upon the wisdom of a Golden Age Greek, but Archimedes had it wrong. The length of the straight line between two people who didn't admit they're in love is infinite. "
129 " Let them start their dreadful wars, but I will still be here, doing my work, holding humankind together with love like this. "
130 " It is no blasphemy to blame me when a love is lost. Only to surround a heart in hatred, prejudice, greed, or pride until I can no longer find it at all. "
131 " You pray the worst will never happen, and then you meet someone to whom it has. "
132 " Lacking a court officer, Hephaestus administers the oath. "Do you solemnly swear to limit the boasting, tell the facts and only the facts, and otherwise keep your great yap shut? "
133 " The War giveth, and the War taketh away. Blessed be the name of the War.” His vicar back home would’ve had a swift comment on such blasphemy. "