Edge of Eternity

The conflicting missions of the two armies seemed to have no fog, no gray, only black-and-white clarity. I had lived my life in terms of compromise, rule-bending, trade-offs, concessions, bargaining, striking deals, finding middle ground. In these two great armies, there was no such thing. Good was good, and evil was evil, and they shared no common ground.

Each day every man comes closer to the day of his death. Those who lay up their treasures in Thuros spend each day moving away from them. Those who lay up their treasures in Charis spend each day moving toward them.

If you know you can fall, you make wise choices to keep yourself from falling.

Yes,” Marcus said. “The King is not gone, you know. He walks the planet, disguised as the needy.

I’d lived my life in a dim labyrinth of drudgery disguised as fun and pleasure.

If a thousand things that made sense to me had turned out wrong, perhaps this thing that didn’t make sense would turn out right.