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“One learns better than to hand one’s choices to fear. With age, with every wound and scar, one learns.”
― Paladin of Souls
― Paladin of Souls
“I saw the same thing in him as I had seen in the eyes of the men who stole me and my sisters that night, and in the eyes of the men who had sold me for silver and gold: to them I am a thing.”
― Naondel
― Naondel
“I've been miserable for more years than I can count... I have suffered, too.... A girl requires more than expensive things. She needs love and acceptance. She needs to know she has value. Being your daughter made me in to a shadow. Much longer, I fear I would have vanished.”
― The Belle of Belgrave Square
― The Belle of Belgrave Square
“My work is to give you what I know of my own particular path while allowing you to walk your own.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
“It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.”
― Paladin of Souls
― Paladin of Souls
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