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Title: A Gathering of Shadows Authors: V.E. Schwab Category:supplementals Number of Highlights: 10 Date: 2025-05-01 Last Highlighted: **
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“Strength and weakness are tangled things,” the Aven Essen had said. “They look so much alike, we often confuse them, the way we confuse magic and power.”
Tags:magic,power,strength,weakness
“Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war. And we control the music.”
“Everyone thinks I have a death wish, you know? But I don’t want to die—dying is easy. No, I want to live, but getting close to death is the only way to feel alive. And once you do, it makes you realize that everything you were doing before wasn’t actually living. It was just making do. Call me crazy, but I think we do the best living when the stakes are high.”
Tags:death,life,perspective
People survived by being cautious, but they got ahead by being bold.
Tags:caution
Kell would say it was impossible. What a useless word, in a world with magic.
Tags:magic
“My point,” continued Rhy, “is that for every ten who worship you, one wants to see you burn. Those are simply the odds when it comes to people like us.”
“The trouble is,” Alucard was saying, “that metal heats much faster than it cools, so the punishment doesn’t end when they take away the rod.”
A fractured self is a poor vessel for power, spilling power without focus or mea-sure from every crack.
Tags:magic
“We all believe the same thing really, we simply give it different names. Hardly a crime.”
He could feel it, whatever it was, hovering in the air around him, waiting until the sun went down and the world got quiet. Quiet enough to think. Thoughts, those were the waiting things, and once they started up, he couldn’t seem to silence them.
Tags:anxiety,depression