Four Ruined Realms Quotes

But if I abandon what I love just to live, what kind of life is that?

There’s an old expression in my village that sometimes the tongue isn’t ready to speak what the eyes have seen. I believe that.

Life is for living, for making mistakes and wringing the most out of good moments because the bad will always be there.

kill what you hate or protect what you love. It’s harder than it sounds.

But now that it was all for nothing, everything rushes back. The pleas for mercy, the cries and death throes echo in my head. the ghosts of past wrongs stand over me... My shoulders fall, the weight too much. the gurgling, the begging, the tears. I put my palms over my ears to make it stop. Doesn't help because the sound is in me.

and one small bed. It’ll barely fit the two of us. I laugh.

Every person dies. The difference is in how they live.

But maybe the good naturally rises above like curds and whey.

Without burning anger, all you’re left with is the embers of grief. In many ways, fury is better because at least it’s something to cling to. Sadness is a barren expanse.

Poison can taste like candy when you’re starving.

But the men aren’t as forgiving of the binds put on women.

It’s so much easier to sink to the level of everybody else.

Maybe mercy is a privilege of the powerful.