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21 " love does not mandate forgiveness. "
― N.K. Jemisin , The Kingdom of Gods (Inheritance, #3)
22 " newborns eventually ignore the lonely silence of a world without heartbeats. "
23 " So this being—whom we shall call Nahadoth because that is a pretty name, and whom we shall label male for the sake of convenience if not completeness—promptly set out to create an existence, which he did by going mad and tearing himself apart. "
24 " In fact, EXISTENCE became the universe, and the beings soon became a family, because it was Enefa’s nature to give meaning to anything she touched. I was the first of their many, many children. "
25 " It was like life without breathing, or friendship without love; what was the point? "
26 " Choose how your nature shapes you. Embrace it. Find the strength in it. Or fight yourself and remain forever incomplete. "
27 " So many of Nahadoth’s children were like her, just a little mad but beautiful in their madness. "
28 " Friendships can transcend childhood," I said softly when Shahar took the knife. She paused, looking at me in surprise. "They can. If the friends continue to trust each other as they grow older and change. "
29 " The conjunction of many elements, all in just the right proportion and strength, all at just the right time. Of such a recipe is divinity made. "
30 " I am the son of chaos and death, "
31 " Sometimes a look is more eloquent than any words. "
32 " Gods notice, but we learn to ignore these things early on, the same way mortal newborns eventually ignore the lonely silence of a world without heartbeats. "
33 " (Useful fact: mortals rarely look up.) "
34 " as if I’d come down sick. (I had. It was called adolescence, an evil, evil disease.) "
35 " The girl frowned. “But don’t you miss him?” I opened my mouth to say of course I don’t and then realized that I did. “Demonshit,” I muttered. "
36 " He is eight or nine years old now—a good age, my favorite age, old enough to know the world yet young enough to still delight in it. "
37 " When I worked hard, I thought less. That was a good and necessary thing. "
38 " Crushes: like butterfly wings against the soul. "
39 " There was meaning in this, as multilayered as poetry and as clear as metaphor. Magic is merely communication, after all. "
40 " Nature is cycles, patterns, repetition. "