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The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2) QUOTES

The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2) QUOTES

1 " Evil became invisible when it was everywhere. Like air, everyone forgot it was there until it was blowing hard enough to knock off their hat or muss up their hair. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

2 " Doubt was a giant-sized beast with heavy boots that pounded through the cities of the mind, sparking an occasional life only so Hope could rise again for a splendid recrushing. Doubt reveled in nothing more than destroying Hope. And Hope, being immortal, lived out its days with blithe indifference to its regular obliteration. Neither cared at all about the suffering they caused: Doubt because it enjoyed suffering; Hope because it was too stupid to recognize it. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

3 " Charms and oaths and guardian spirits were all the product of a need for something to believe in because people didn’t believe in themselves, a need to let problems resolve on their own rather than confront them. People were predominantly fearful of disruption, even of the things they found overbearing, even as they attempted to wish them away. It was why they invented heroes. It was why the world suffered through long periods of stagnation between innovations. Because rather than change the things that needed change, people preferred to cower and wait until a hero arrived to do it for them. Assuming by that point it was not already too late. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

4 " Unless was a sword held carefully by the blade. A single slip and all the delicate designs could fall apart in a clatter of severed fingers. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

5 " A name isn't important. It doesn't make you, you make it. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

6 " History loved to lie, through simple distortion or complete fabrication. Lies were the cosmetics of history, and when history could not be beautiful, it preferred to be shocking. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

7 " That was the nature of hope. Sustaining, but of little practical purpose besides. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

8 " That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

9 " Hope was always creating pleasantly ideological, and therefore impossible things. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

10 " Most people gladly blended into the unoffending beige of humanity. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)

11 " People clung to memories and legends, loving them because they went on forever, and people loved the eternal, hoping there might be something eternal in themselves. "

― Sean DeLauder , The Least Envied (Songs Unsung, #2)