Matthew Stover Short Quotes

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Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

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When the gods would punish us, they answer our prayers.

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Maybe. A powerful. Enough. Metaphor. Grows. Its own. Truth.

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It is in the darkest night that the light we are shines brightest

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The truth is always greater than the words we use to describe it.

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Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

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I don't have to stop you. All I have to do is slow you down." -Ganner Rhysode

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Can't trust a fascist—truth is always your first sacrifice to the welfare of the state

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"The problem with happy endings," Tan'elkoth said, "is that nothing is ever truly over."

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Shit, kid, thinking about that makes me all warm and fuzzy inside, like I just ate a kitten.

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Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.

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... I suspect that pain means little to you as your life—but both your life and your pain are very important to me.

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Fairy tales—simple stories for simple minds, a breath of air to cool brows overheated by the complexities of real life.

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When you always know what is right, where is freedom? No one chooses the wrong, Jacen Solo. Uncertainty sets you free." -Vergere

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Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

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I read once, somewhere, that the way you know you've grown up is when your future death becomes a stone in your shoe: when you feel it with every step.

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His destiny had betrayed him, had made him a destroyer on a scale that humbled even Caine. Destiny, he understood with bitter certainty, could not be trusted.

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A religion that teaches you God is something outside the world—something separate from everything you see, smell, taste, touch, and hear—is nothing but a cheap hustle.

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He did understand. Finally, fatally, he did. He had thought he was the master of history, that his fractal world-tree had grown according to his will. He had allowed himself to be deceived.

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This truth: that he, the avatar of light, Supreme Master of the Jedi Order, the fiercest, most impeccable, most devastatingly powerful foe the darkness had ever known... just- didn't- have it.

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It's customary, at times like this, to say a few words. A man shouldn't die with no understanding of why he's been murdered. I do not pride myself on my eloquence, and so I will keep this simple.

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