Shake your fist all you want but dead is dead

"There's little value in seeking to find reasons for why people do what they do, or feel the way they feel. Hatred is a most pernicious thing, finding root in any kind of soil. It feeds on itself." "With words."

Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.

And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.

For we are all bound in stories, and as the years pile up they turn to stone, layer upon layer, building our lives.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.

All they get around here is stories. Stories don't make you bleed. Stories don't make you go hungry, don't give you sore feet. When you're young smelling of pigshit and convinced there ain't a weapon in all the damn world that's going to hurt you, all stories do is make you want to be part of them.