Atlas au Raa Quotes

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"You asked, what do I fear? I fear a man who believes in good. For he can excuse any evil."

Dark Age, ch. 17: Darrow: Heliopolis, p. 137

"Here lie Martians all Thralls of the Slave King Who thought with wicked delight to take your planet’s treasure and break their Master’s might All ye who enter here: witness their work, and despair"

Dark Age, ch. 42: Lysander: A Chorus Upon the Pale, p. 358

"Distance has sanitized war nearly as much as Stoneside’s fucking ramblings. It has made it easy…romantic. I have no interest in sanitization nor romance. I apply scientific methods to produce psychological trauma in our enemies in order to create psychological casualties. To end their willingness to fight and shorten this war. That is my purpose."

Dark Age, ch. 59: Lysander: The Impaler, p. 501

"They are meditation totems. Each is for a human who preyed upon my prejudices. Daedra seemed harmless, kind, stupid. She brought my men figs and bread every day for a week, until her figs were laced with a nerve agent. A hundred and four men died because I could not see her for what she was."

Dark Age, ch. 59: Lysander: The Impaler, p. 504

"how can you understand a man at war with himself?"

Dark Age, ch. 59: Lysander: The Impaler, p. 504

"An idealist. Don’t fret, it’s a temporary condition."

Dark Age, ch. 59: Lysander: The Impaler, p. 505

"Caesar was a clod. But he got one thing right: war gives the right to the conquerors to impose any condition they please upon the vanquished."

Dark Age, ch. 61: Darrow: Hero of Tyche, p. 520
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"All of a man’s affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. For order, I impaled soldiers. For liberty, you drowned cities. The victor writes history with the blood of the vanquished. I wonder, in the end, which of us will turn out the hero? Don’t you?"

Dark Age, ch. 61: Darrow: Hero of Tyche, p. 521

"Remember you are but a mortal"

Dark Age, ch. 89: Lysander: Triumph of the Long Night, p. 724

"Had I a moonBreaker in my palm, I’d shake even the devil’s hand with a grin."

Light Bringer, ch. Chapter 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 65

"Starvation is a slow boil. The pan is set. The burner is on."

Light Bringer, ch. Chapter 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 66

"Nephew, I was sorry to hear of my brother’s death. He was a great man, your father. We had our differences, namely your mother, but I loved him very much. I have no doubt you’ll live up to our name."

Light Bringer, ch. Chapter 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 66

"Helios, we ply the same trade you and I. Truth. But ask yourself. Between the two of us, who is the one who has broken an oath? And who is the one who has not?"

Light Bringer, ch. Chapter 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 66

"It is no shame to be loved."

Light Bringer, ch. Chapter 7: Lysander: The Ally Idiot, p. 67