“There’s a difference between serving the system and enabling it.” — wildbow Difference Copy Share Image
“Things become a great deal easier once you realize how temporary it all is.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“I was swiftly losing faith in humanity. Not that I had much to spare.” — wildbow Faith Copy Share Image
“We are a wretched, petty species, and we have been given power to destroy ourselves with.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Do morals matter, if our alternative is a grim and hopeless end?” — wildbow Character Copy Share Image
“Free time is the easiest thing to sacrifice,” Defiant said. “It costs you, to give it up, but there’s little guilt.” — wildbow Defiant Copy Share Image
“On this violent, brutish little planet of ours, it’s the survivors who wind up the strongest ones of all.” — wildbow Survivors Copy Share Image
“I like to think people are stronger than they appear at first glance. Perhaps the same goes for cities as well?” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Plan for the worst,” Grue replied, staring into the distance, “If you’re right, you’re prepared. If you’re wrong, you’re pleasantly surprised.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Everyone gets what they want most,” Marquis mused. “I can’t think of anything more terrifying.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“I don’t think this looks easy at all. Going down any road labeled ‘death’ has to be the easier road.” — wildbow Death Copy Share Image
“I don’t think humanity is noble,” I said. “Not in the least. It’s not just or fair on an intrinsic level. It’s… — wildbow Humanity Copy Share Image
“I might fall, but I’ll come back again and again. I might falter, but I’ll return with twice the fury.” — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Humans crave knowledge. It’s a defining element in our species. Something we don’t see in animals in that same way, something we… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“It’s for love, in the end. Pettiest of all pursuits. Arrogance, greed, even revenge… they’re nobler, trust me. I’ve walked all those… — wildbow Cynical Copy Share Image
“Like actors taking a role in a play. We wear our human faces and harbor our dramas and fantasies, but it’s the… — wildbow Actors Copy Share Image
“Life’s not fair. It’s not even, not balanced, not right. Why should relationships between people be any different? There’s always going to… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“I will take this gamble and perhaps kill those people in the process. I will kill those people who can make me… — wildbow Death Copy Share Image
“And… that’s the last we have in our actual records. […] There’s been more in the last week, I take it?” “More… — wildbow Humor Copy Share Image
“Death is inevitable. Life is too. Even if Scion succeeds, there will be some who remain, because they hid well enough, because… — wildbow Death Copy Share Image
“America wasn’t perfect, but nothing touched by human hands could be. There was greed, corruption, selfishness, pettiness, hatred. But there were good… — wildbow America Copy Share Image
“As if family somehow made you better than someone else? The idea nettled Bitch. Life experience had taught her that it was… — wildbow Family Copy Share Image
“Not a trace of emotion on her face. Not a flicker of a change in expression. Did she not care, or was… — wildbow Change Copy Share Image
“Counting coup?” Leister asked. He was the sole subordinate that Vantage had brought along. Rime, by contrast, had brought Usher and Arbiter… — wildbow Coup Copy Share Image
“I know I sound a little crazy when I say that, but really, you get a glimpse of these bugs as they… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“I envy you, that it’s so easy for you to think of things in terms of black and white. I’d like to… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Okay, here’s a cheat I learned in a leadership seminar. It’s called active listening. Someone says something, a complaint, or a criticism,… — wildbow Communication Copy Share Image
“I like to imagine the impact I’ve made on the world. What possible realities am I pruning, what events am I setting… — wildbow Career Copy Share Image
“If you’ve decided who you want to be,” Glenn said, “Accept all of it. The good, the bad, the ambiguous. Vulnerabilities and… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“Not all journeys have destinations. Power is the ability to effect change, and people who create change ride that tide, with far-reaching… — wildbow Change Copy Share Image
“My hands were paralyzed, one wrapped around the handle of the Hyena’s sword, spikes sticking through the flesh and out the back… — wildbow Beneath the surface Copy Share Image
“I’d later read up on it, because understanding something meant being able to handle it, and my problems back then had been… — wildbow Copy Share Image
“The Fool in the Tarot deck frequently depicted a boy with a dog at his heels, staring at the sky while he… — wildbow Facing death Copy Share Image
“Money was the blood of civilized society, its currents running through everything and everyone. Where money was insufficient, things withered. People starved,… — wildbow Civilized society Copy Share Image
“Nature of a compromise is that it leaves everyone more or less equally unhappy.” — wildbow Compromise Copy Share Image
“That’s the funny thing about pity, Saint. It’s condescending by default.” — wildbow Condescending Copy Share Image
“A huge pet peeve of mine: being asked to arrive for a specific time, then being made to wait. Fifteen minutes was… — wildbow Pet peeve Copy Share Image