In school, we learned about the world before ours, about the angels and gods that lived in the sky, ruling the earth with kind and loving hands. Some say those are just stories, but I don't believe that. The gods rule us still. They have come down from the stars. And they are no longer kind. Victoria Aveyard
Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a worm, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.
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Michel De Montaigne
I'm telling you, you really should stick to mating within your species, whatever that is.'' I would, ' I said, 'but unfortunately, there are no gorgeous, all-powerful, all-knowing gods around here. I'd even settle for a demigod. It's a step down, I know. But alas,...
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Kristin Walker
I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram.
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Mervyn Peake
While it was well within their powers to toy around with mortals like hapless puppets, deeper human workings remained elusive to them. The heart, the soul, the very foundation of man’s nature–those were mysteries to the gods, for all their manipulations.
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Hayden Thorne
There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good – they’re the things worth living and dying...
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Mercedes Lackey
More Quotes By Victoria Aveyard
You want me to pin my entire operation, the entire revolution on some teenaged love story? I can't believe this.
She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew. But there’s a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.
I am the shadow of the flame.
Shocked to see me?" I drawl at them, chuckling at the horrific joke.
I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me? I don’t know. And I don’t know how to make it stop.
