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“Sleep is good. Death is better. Yet surely, never to have been born is best. Of course, living versus not living would be the question, had we been given the choice.”
- Archive
“It's true that souls and memories can do strange things during a trance. I think I've been in a trance my whole life. I don't remember what it felt like to feel. Does that make sense?”
- Ghost
“Death, my friend, is the ultimate equalizer. It cares not for your station, your wealth, or your power. It is the great leveler, reducing all to dust and shadow. And as you live, it's important to remember that, one day, you too shall cross that veil.”
- Feather
“Death is... a threshold unseen, a journey unknown. In the realm of shadows, they linger. Trapped, between the worlds of the living and the departed. I was trapped there once. It felt like home.”
- Shire
“I’m scared to close my eyes, for he is all I see, and I’m scared to open them, for fear of seeing me. Do you ever feel those prickly things on the back of your neck? You don't? A shame, then. I was hoping you could feel him too.”
- Dune
“I try really hard to find something good, but it keeps slipping away, like I'm trying to hold onto clouds. Why do I have to keep going when everything feels so heavy and sad?”
- Crown
"Sometimes I wonder what it's all for, you know? All this chaos, this endless fight. Feels like we're chasing nothing, sacrificing so much for what? Peace? Is that even possible? What cost are we paying for mere moments of safety? It's hard not to question it all, to see the point in this madness. The things I've done... I wonder if it's all worth it in the end."
- Ivory
"Why put me through all this, just to snatch it away? I've followed your plans, I've struggled, I've done everything asked of me. So why would you build me up only to tear me down?"
- Lore
"Life's mysteries often challenge our understanding. Perhaps the end of one chapter merely signifies the beginning of another. Sometimes, what appears as a downfall is a rebirth, a chance for growth and transformation beyond what you perceive.”
- Isle/First
"The sea calls to me, it's in my blood. I ache for the rhythm of the waves, the creaking of the ship. Sometimes, a sailor needs the land to appreciate the sea even more, but once you've tasted the sea it's hard to forget its allure. Nothing quite compares to the call of the ocean to what she's claimed as hers. What belongs to her waters will always return eventually, that much you can be certain of.”
- Wonder
“I'm scared of this being over. I'm fated to die, so how long do I really have left? The only thing keeping the Goddesses from ending me is this quest. It's not the dying part that frightens me though, it's who I'm leaving behind. I love them with every inch of my whole being, enough to die for them. I'd die for any of you. But is dying for them to exist really worth it when all they're forced to do is suffer?”
- Spade
“The future is a tapestry woven by the threads of decision. It's impossible to make sense of it. To be honest, I've only ever had one real vision, and on account of my missing eyes I didn't understand much of it. Funny, it almost sounds like the beginning of a poorly thought out joke. An oracle that is unable to see two steps ahead of her, and cannot foresee even one. Truly, what a joke I am.”
- Oracle
“When I woke, alone, I cried for months and months for all the lives lost because I was too weak. Because I had failed to do the one thing asked of me in return for everything I'd been given. Picture the agony of witnessing friends and family and so many hundreds of lives die to an evil you were forced to leave alone, their last breaths clinging to the hope that 'the Hero will come save us’ and knowing you can't.
I guess Hylia pitied me – in a way she never did someone else. I'll always hate myself for that. For getting that second chance to do things right that another never did, and likely never will.”
- Twine