STRAY FROM THE PATH...

I know what you did to them! I know what you did to the other “Faith’s” before me!

❝ A wounded insect buried deeper: the secret now half-blind. That which digs for truth may bury deeper lies. ❞

❝ I command you to pass onward as gently as the lover passes a razor over beloved skin. ❞

❝ Cut too deep and too quick, and you will kill the thing you want to know. ❞

❝ Beware the one who feeds on truth-adjacent lies! ❞

❝ If you have grace, then see our sorrows, but swallow back your tears. ❞

❝ We were made to pay this price. I led us to our fate. ❞

❝ This is true only if you count by the calendar of a planet I have barely visited but will always love. ❞

❝ I came because I saw an omen in a man’s death. ❞

❝ I miss the sense of oil and sweat on my skin, for the suit leaves me so clean that I feel skinned raw. ❞ 

❝ The ideal statement would be indecipherable to anyone but the person it’s spoken to—and even then, only if they know you are the one speaking. ❞ 

❝ I was bathed in the most profound emptiness. ❞

❝ There are those who will give anything to feel that void. ❞

❝ It is one thing to have a particular power over people. But it is another to deny that you are using it. ❞

❝ If you were to die, they would lose something important, something Human that they have created out of loneliness and void. It would be an unforgettable reminder of the hostile nothingness that surrounds us. When you endanger yourself, you endanger that symbol. ❞

❝ You presented yourself as a conduit to secret knowledge. ❞ 

❝ You want to go back, don’t you? ❞

❝ We’d be dead before we saved a single soul. ❞

❝ We don’t owe those people our deaths. We don’t owe them our dreams. ❞ 

❝ It tingles, it thrills, and it leaves in its wake a subsonic tint of dread and anticipation. ❞

❝ The darkness knows us now. ❞

❝ The thing that has come to kill Humanity has our taste. ❞

❝ We did not fly this far to look back and beg for salvation from an alien god. ❞

❝ Our fate lies ahead, not behind. ❞

❝ We pray there’s something out there that cares about the difference.   ❞

❝ I cannot surrender my mystery. ❞

❝ There’s no starlight to die in. The darkness is absolute. ❞

❝ You’ll lose yourself trying to follow me. ❞

❝ I am infinitely hostile because I must be. ❞

❝ Battle fought, an equilibrium reached: not a truce, but an infinite limit, like an equation dividing by zero, a collision of two violent eternities. ❞

❝ Sun is the cradle of life, but we cannot remain in the cradle forever. ❞

❝ God may yet be surprised. ❞

❝ How long have you been alone? ❞ 

❝ It is the first lie ever told, the first secret kept. ❞

❝ I remember we were born in death. ❞

❝ They think you denied them even the capability to imagine godhood. ❞

❝ Who can read that truth and not hear arrogance? ❞

❝ Why do you love lies so much? ❞

❝ Secrets. Even if everyone shared a single truth, all our minds would produce different versions of the truth. We speak these subtruths, and like flowers of different seed, the subtruths compete for the light of our attention. In time, only the fiercest and most provocative strains remain. They are not always the truest. ❞

❝ An immortal’s grief and murder-guilt, left untended, will never fade. ❞

❝ We could not ever have been gods with this flaw in us! ❞

❝ I live here because one day I will no longer be immortal, and I want to observe the dignity of death. ❞

❝ Lies and secrets. And the one who doesn’t know the difference between them. ❞

❝ There is power in remove and safety from the belittling politics of temporal power, which reveal the mighty as unforgivably ordinary and petty. ❞

❝ Smell lies deepest in memory. ❞

❝ Let us take the stars together. ❞

❝ I’m very interested to know the answers. ❞

❝ We are our own triumph. ❞

❝ Our world is a gift. And we must refuse it. ❞

❝ They tell a story of bravery, of war, and of desperate loss. ❞

❝ We must leave our heaven, return to the world of our ancestors, and take up the works they abandoned. ❞

❝ All I offer you is hardship and death. All I ask is everything you can offer. ❞

❝ But you will see an older starlight. ❞

❝ You will walk in a deeper dark than this world has ever known. ❞

❝ And how much would you sacrifice? Your mother? Your brother? Are we real to you at all? ❞

❝ Do you think my people were made to die for you? ❞

❝ You cannot keep a secret buried like a vintage for so many centuries, and then unbottle it without any ceremony. ❞

❝ The boon I ask is your forgiveness. ❞

❝ I will do it out of hate for you. ❞

❝ There is a war, and its name is existence. ❞

❝ We are risen from man and fallen from heaven. ❞

❝ I saw your face in my dream. I saw your eyes. I heard your voice. ❞