The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

2010 • 432 pages

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There were lifetimes in those eyes, none of them happy.


“I've found it useful,” I replied, “to be underestimated.”


... strength has always been the marker of beauty in my eyes.


We can never be gods, after all–but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.


Theres truth even in tainted knowledge, if one reads carefully.


When he was free, he was all things beautiful and terrible.


“MAELSTROM”


“Nothing can stay the same forever,” she said. “We were not made to be still.”


Age means nothing to us. What matters is staying true to ones nature.

“I'm tired of being what everyone else has made me,” I said. “I want to be myself.”

April 5, 2016