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1 " Rage is love...twisted in on itself. Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less. "
― Evan Winter , The Fires of Vengeance (The Burning, #2)
2 " only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not. "
3 " The lie isn’t that we can’t be their equals. The lie is that they were ever anything but our equals. "
4 " A fighter who will only go into battle when they're at their best fights for pleasure and not principle. The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we'll only defend them in the sun. "
5 " At its essence, isn’t true leadership simply service? "
6 " Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less "
7 " They wrote the rules in their favor, succeeded more often than others, and pointed to that as proof of their superiority. "
8 " He knew that the difference between the ones who stood and the ones who fell was that the truly triumphant taught themselves to meet all their fights, regardless of circumstance, in spite of the odds, and in defiance of fear. So, "
9 " I don't know.""How is that good enough?"He took her hands in his. "It isn't. It isn't good enough and nothing will be for a while, because that's part of what loss is, an absence of goodness and happiness taht cant be reason with or diminished. "
10 " [...] Tau admitted to himself that being near Tsiora gave him peace. "Tau, do you know why we haven't been able to win the war against the Xideen?"Well, most of the time it gave her peace. "
11 " He couldn't believe she was so openly talking about them not talking. "
12 " Tau realized that the unending agony in his leg wouldn't have the chance to drive him mad. The fruitless hopes of the religious zealots would do it first. "
13 " Rage reaches into the world when we can no longer contain the hurt of being treated as if our life and loves do not matter. Rage, and its consequences, are what we get when the world refuses to change for anything less. "
14 " The way she was looking at him made Tau worry he’d overstepped, but he was weary of making himself less than he was so that those cloaked in power might be comfortable. "