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*''Listen! Listen. Death, true death, is both failure and liberation. Liberation from a race you had no hope of winning. To kill, then, is a terrible sort of compassion, a dreadful kindness.'' | *''Listen! Listen. Death, true death, is both failure and liberation. Liberation from a race you had no hope of winning. To kill, then, is a terrible sort of compassion, a dreadful kindness.'' | ||
*''Delve deeper. Make yourself known. They'll believe you are one of their own. And that is the only way.'' | *''Delve deeper. Make yourself known. They'll believe you are one of their own. And that is the only way.'' | ||
*''Do you know the Awoken bury their dead in open- air crypts? It's a tradition born of a dreadful kind of optimism. Foolish, if you ask me.'' | *''Do you know the Awoken bury their dead in open-air crypts? It's a tradition born of a dreadful kind of optimism. Foolish, if you ask me.'' | ||
*''I could flense you apart, molecule by squirming, molecule. It is within my power.'' | *''I could flense you apart, molecule by squirming, molecule. It is within my power.'' | ||
*''Guiding the uninitiated toward a final battle of spectacular futility used to be my speciality, you know. Forgive me if I'm a little rusty.'' | |||
*''When a god's will is met with force, its might will be unleashed in the form of... hahaha.. trickery.'' | *''When a god's will is met with force, its might will be unleashed in the form of... hahaha.. trickery.'' | ||
*''Do you like it here? It's scenic, I will say that. The sisters did not do much redecorating when they moved in, but I say, give them time..'' | *''Do you like it here? It's scenic, I will say that. The sisters did not do much redecorating when they moved in, but I say, give them time..'' | ||
*''Follow the screams'' | *''Follow the screams'' | ||
*''Oryx would look on all of this and laugh - he would laugh so deep and true...'' | |||
*''This curse is a prototype, I'm sure. A step to something far more cunning.'' | |||
*''Have you unraveled the pattern?'' | |||
*''Come now, you'll have to be cleverer than this to break through. Sharpen yourself. Make ready.'' | |||
*''Study everything. Absorb the pattern. Transcend it.'' | |||
*''The witch-queen's deception runs far and deep. Question everything. Question even me.'' | |||
*''Belief in the Light is a thin pane of glass between you and the truth, and if you don't shatter the glass yourself, I will shatter it for you.'' | |||
*''Were you tricked by the worm that chased the Warmind? Did you truly believe you'd fought one of the beings that the Hive call gods? Ha!'' | *''Were you tricked by the worm that chased the Warmind? Did you truly believe you'd fought one of the beings that the Hive call gods? Ha!'' | ||
*''"A shape which depends on nothing but itself." Do you see the profundity of that concept?'' | *''"A shape which depends on nothing but itself." Do you see the profundity of that concept?'' | ||
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*''Paracausality! What a trip. If you believe your weapon wants to murder all existence, then so it will. Call it a little bad juju, if you please...'' | *''Paracausality! What a trip. If you believe your weapon wants to murder all existence, then so it will. Call it a little bad juju, if you please...'' | ||
*''Sharpen your intentions. When life is strength and strength is death, what is death, if not hope?'' | *''Sharpen your intentions. When life is strength and strength is death, what is death, if not hope?'' | ||
*''The curse itself is how the deceiver manifests; she has learned from her brother's death. Clever girl, clever girl...'' | |||
*''Sickness, weakness, bad luck, pestilence - that's the old idea of a curse. This repetition is an innovation purpose - built for Guardians.'' | *''Sickness, weakness, bad luck, pestilence - that's the old idea of a curse. This repetition is an innovation purpose - built for Guardians.'' | ||
*''Banish every memory of what you believe is true. Unshackle yourself.'' | |||
*''Death is just a word, isn't it? A catch-all term for the failure to go on – nothing spiritual, nothing with its own quiddity.'' | *''Death is just a word, isn't it? A catch-all term for the failure to go on – nothing spiritual, nothing with its own quiddity.'' | ||
*''Come back to us, Eris. Come back. I have seen your future; you are, as ever, fated to be misunderstood, maligned, ruined on the rocks of tragedy...'' | *''Come back to us, Eris. Come back. I have seen your future; you are, as ever, fated to be misunderstood, maligned, ruined on the rocks of tragedy...'' | ||
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*''What will you do here, in this world on fire? You could carve your name into the fabric of reality, but you lack the imagination for that, don't you?'' | *''What will you do here, in this world on fire? You could carve your name into the fabric of reality, but you lack the imagination for that, don't you?'' | ||
*''Osiris! Osiris, Osiris, can you hear me?'' | *''Osiris! Osiris, Osiris, can you hear me?'' | ||
*''A dreamer set adrift, caught between schemes -a pleasant pawn for murderous queens... hahaha.'' | *''You will never meet the deceiver.'' | ||
*''A dreamer set adrift, caught between schemes - a pleasant pawn for murderous queens... hahaha.'' | |||
*''That which does not kill you makes you stronger, but what does that mean in the face of immortality?'' | *''That which does not kill you makes you stronger, but what does that mean in the face of immortality?'' | ||
*''Tell me, Guardian: Do you trust me? Do you believe I am an ally of the Light or a servant of the Darkness? What if I told you I was neither?'' | *''Tell me, Guardian: Do you trust me? Do you believe I am an ally of the Light or a servant of the Darkness? What if I told you I was neither?'' | ||