What humans do when they're desperate is just an expression of fear. What they do when they feel safe is a better indication of whether or not you can trust them.

Manners,[...] are severly underappreciated in my opinion". "Oh?" Where practiced well, they remove the probability that someone in my position will be forced to go through the effort of killing someone in yours. Belive that on occasion that much death can become tedious.

There is not a man born among us who dreams—at first—of service, although in the end, many are bent that way.

The gods where like the weather; sometimes good, sometimes bad, and either way, always beyond her.

It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could finally happen. But if you didn't? You missed this. This intense and prefect moment in which, while the world was almost literally going to hells all around you, hope and reality blended in a single, perfect note.

The look he gave her made her turn away for a moment. Sometimes you couldn’t look too closely at another person’s pain.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.