A Conjuring of Light

It was cowardice, he knew, but cowardice came so much easier than hope.

I loved him the way the moon loves the stars

Revolutionaries were too easily mistaken for madmen.

Loyalty is either bought or earned

You’re just so easy to rile. You really can’t fault me for doing it.

“It doesn’t matter what someone is. Only what they think they are.”

Sometimes you had to pretend, everyone knew that. Pretend to be happy. Pretend to be brave. Pretend to be strong. If you pretended long enough, it eventually came true.

Only fools are certain

Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be

Power required corruption, and corruption rewarded power.