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"Desperation brings out the darkness in everyone," the man said with a shrug."
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."

"Sniffing glue is a homeless nonbeliever's prayer."

"The negative way of thinking based on constant complaints, strains, and objections of discontent steals our energy."

"Words don't have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess."

"Who has fear? The one who has greed has fear."

"For how long are the people who seek for the approval of others keep putting their self-worth in the hands of people?"

"Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness."

"Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined."

"Overriding the old information in your mind with new information is easy, but to actually go further than just putting a veneer over your old mindset is the way forward."

"We sometimes try to impress people we just met by not trying to impress them."
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"Once upon a time, a girl had a father, a prince, a society of friends. Then they betrayed her, so she destroyed them all."

"Why can't I be like that? Why can't I be the father who just shrugs off the love of his daughter? Why can't I be the Lead Inquisitor who enjoys watching his pleading victims burn at the stake? Why can't I be the one who befriends a lonely, lost girl and then casts her out? Why can't I be the one to strike first, to hit so early and with such fury that my enemies cower before they can ever think of turning on me? What is so great about being good?"

"My heart's been torn wide open, just like I feared it would be, and I have no willpower to close it back up."

"Let go of me, I choke out, clawing blindly at Teren. The sharp tang of blood suddenly fills my nostrils, and I realize that it is from his wrists, spreading a film of scarlet around us. Somewhere ahead, the silhouette of our ship looms. We are getting closer."I wish I could, Teren spits, dripping venom. "There's nothing I'd like to see more than you in the Underworld, Adelina.His words spark my fury. He never intended to finish this journey with you. Teren grips my arm again so hard that I scream in pain. He is pulling us both toward the ship, his face set in grim determination.Then I hear him shout, "But I won't.But I won't. My fury wavers, turning into bewilderment."

"One heroic act doesn't make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?"

"What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were never meant to be, but because we were always meant to be?"
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