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1 " Life is tenacious. Even on the brink of death, it holds the battlements and snarls. "
― Elizabeth Bear , All the Windwracked Stars (The Edda of Burdens, #1)
2 " Following a voice that sings only for his ears, the wolf steps from the cold emptiness of a dead world into the bustling street of one that is merely dying fast. "
3 " He has outlived two Ragnaroks and a far more human apocalypse. It is time to tear down, shed the husk, leave behind a dead world to see a new world reborn. "
4 " She tilted her head back reflexively, drinking deep of the night air tainted by the unwholesome sweetness of the Well, looking upward as if the stars were there to help her bear the pain. "
5 " My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you. "
6 " If you have to die [...] better to go down fighting. Better to die in company. Better not be the last, and alone, weighed down with all that knowing. "