Quotes From "Arabesque" By Hayden Thorne

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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. Hayden Thorne
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Mortals are odd creatures in that sense–flawed yet hopeful. One can study them through millennia and still get nowhere near full understanding of their nature. Hayden Thorne