[Quote] Villains By Necessity Edition
Words words words from Eve Forward's book. Just started and am continuing right now. Need to read more.
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Kaylana on Balance, Darkness, and Light:
"If darkness prevails...the world is unbalanced. Death outruns life, night is forever, even the creatures of evil finally slip into death in their own darkness."
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"Light conquered, and drove the darkness away, far, too far away."
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"This is what happens now. We are unbalanced. Nature is affected; the nights grow shorter, and the stars are brighter at night. The animals reproduce more, and the weak and ill do not die as they should, to make room for the new life. The vegetation runs riot. The people are slowing, drifting into ennui of constant prosperity. Every day, the balance is upset further, as more of the creatures of darkness die in the light, and people such as you vanish. You are not servants of darkness, but you represent it, wittingly or not. Your existence is a facet of darkness...but thought the people curse you, and your darkness makes you alone, you are as necessary to the survival of the world as predators are to an environment. If everyone and everything were evil, the world would be plunged into eternal darkness. If everyone and everything were good, the world would be sublimated in a dazzling brilliance." (p. 34)
"What if everyone were neutral, like ye, then?"
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"Stasis. Everything would slow to a stop. Neither light nor day would come, so the world would be in perpetual twilight. The world would not move, nothing would grow, no wind would blow, no animals would run, no water would flow. Nothing would die, nothing would be born. Nothing would change. That is why good and evil are necessary. It is the conflict that allows change that allows existence to continue."
"So what's yer point of all this, then?"
"The point is, the world is in danger of being, as I said, sublimated. The balance is distorted, the world is slipping over. Soon, it will pass the point of no return, and there will be no way we can bring the scales back to level. It will be the end, but for the final flash of light." (p. 35)
"In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces."
- Sam, p.35
"He bleeds on my floor. Why did you not tell me he was wounded?"
Arcie shrugged. "You didn't ask."
- Kaylana and Arcie on Sam fainting from blood loss, p.36
Darkness, he realized takes courage, whether you fight it or live it.
- Sam thought, p.58
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More to be added later?
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Kaylana on Balance, Darkness, and Light:
"If darkness prevails...the world is unbalanced. Death outruns life, night is forever, even the creatures of evil finally slip into death in their own darkness."
[ ... ]
"Light conquered, and drove the darkness away, far, too far away."
[ ... ]
"This is what happens now. We are unbalanced. Nature is affected; the nights grow shorter, and the stars are brighter at night. The animals reproduce more, and the weak and ill do not die as they should, to make room for the new life. The vegetation runs riot. The people are slowing, drifting into ennui of constant prosperity. Every day, the balance is upset further, as more of the creatures of darkness die in the light, and people such as you vanish. You are not servants of darkness, but you represent it, wittingly or not. Your existence is a facet of darkness...but thought the people curse you, and your darkness makes you alone, you are as necessary to the survival of the world as predators are to an environment. If everyone and everything were evil, the world would be plunged into eternal darkness. If everyone and everything were good, the world would be sublimated in a dazzling brilliance." (p. 34)
"What if everyone were neutral, like ye, then?"
[ ... ]
"Stasis. Everything would slow to a stop. Neither light nor day would come, so the world would be in perpetual twilight. The world would not move, nothing would grow, no wind would blow, no animals would run, no water would flow. Nothing would die, nothing would be born. Nothing would change. That is why good and evil are necessary. It is the conflict that allows change that allows existence to continue."
"So what's yer point of all this, then?"
"The point is, the world is in danger of being, as I said, sublimated. The balance is distorted, the world is slipping over. Soon, it will pass the point of no return, and there will be no way we can bring the scales back to level. It will be the end, but for the final flash of light." (p. 35)
"In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces."
- Sam, p.35
"He bleeds on my floor. Why did you not tell me he was wounded?"
Arcie shrugged. "You didn't ask."
- Kaylana and Arcie on Sam fainting from blood loss, p.36
Darkness, he realized takes courage, whether you fight it or live it.
- Sam thought, p.58
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More to be added later?