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"The problem with happy endings," Tan'elkoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
A powerful enough metaphor grows its own truth.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world--something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear--is nothing but a cheap hustle.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"Shit, kid, thinking about that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just ate a kitten."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Can't trust a fascist--truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"...I suspect that pain means little to you as your life--but both your life and your pain are very important to me."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"All true stories end in death."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
The prize of individualism--its goal--is self-actualization, which is only another name for vanity. We do not admire men for achieving self-actualization; we admire self-actualization when its end result is a boon to humanity.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
And in the name of this gospel of freedom, she had imprisoned herself; in the name of "living life honestly," she would go to her death. It was, he supposed, the only way she could make herself feel special.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
The man did not move because only immobility could hurt more than motion: the man held himself still because to move might lessen his suffering, and that he could not bear. For him only pain had meaning.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
He did understand. Finally, fatally, he did. He had thought he was the master of history, that his fractal world-tree had grown according to his will. He had allowed himself to be deceived.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
He had no idea what he should do now. Without destiny to guide him, he was lost in a vast, whistling darkness. Any direction he might choose was purely abitary; it would make no more sense, offer no more hope, than would sitting still. Which offered neither sense nor hope at all.
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)
"Reasons are for peasants."
Blade of Tyshalle (2001)