Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.
There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
He barks out a laugh. "My little rebel.
His divine spark lives within me, a presence that will never leave. And I am but one of many tools He has at His disposal. If I cannot act - if I refuse to act - that is a choice I am allowed to make. He has given me life, and all I must do to serve Him is to live. Fully and with my whole heart. With this knowledge comes a true understanding of all the gifts He has given me.
And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.
This is what I want to be. An instrument of mercy, not vengeance.
. . . then he offers me his arm. As I take it, I wonder what folly decreed that women cannot walk unassisted.
I've sort of closed my mind off to reality shows: I just don't watch them, don't care about them, don't know who the characters are, but they're all in general usage.
Victory brings obliviousness; defeat, attentiveness.
Rememberest the gods, and that they wish not to be flattered, but wish all reasonable beings to be made like themselves; and. . . rememberest that what does the work of a fig-tree is a fig-tree, and that what does the work of a dog is a dog, and that what does the work of a bee is a bee, and that what does the work of a man is a man.
Wake up, you idiots! Whatever made you think that money was so valuable?