"Your trouble is, the Old Faith reinforces every wish to kill that war has roused in you."

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“Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?”

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