MARASENNA — “The Marasenna catalogs the creation of the Awoken, including the creation of the Distributary and the Awoken’s history until some left for Sol under the command of Mara Sov.”
“Cut too deep and too quick, and you will kill the thing you want to know.”
“Think too eagerly, and as the digging hand leaves its print in soft earth, so you will find only the image left by your own presumptions.”
“We were made to pay this price.”
“You cannot help but love Earth if you grow up in space.”
“Humanity as a cocoon, an instar, a form ready to be shed.”
“There are those who will give anything to feel that void.”
“I really don’t care what risks you take.”
“It is one thing to have a particular power over people. But it is another to deny that you are using it.”
“What people make of you, what they create of you—even without your consent—becomes a kind of responsibility.”
“I keep an ear out for… curious personalities. People who awaken when others sleep.”
“We have a decision to make.”
“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.“
“We go onward. We do not turn home. Our fate lies ahead, not behind.”
“Too much power has gathered here.”
“Sun is the cradle of life, but we cannot remain in the cradle forever.”
“I remember the danger was appalling. I remember we were born in death.”
"Nothing has one beginning.”
“Why do you love lies so much?”
“We could not ever have been gods with this flaw in us!”
“You’ve brought him here to die?”
“I cannot live while you live, but I cannot bear to kill you.”
"You don’t care about him? It would mean nothing if I maimed him?”
“Let us take the stars together.”
“My work is done, and I will stomach no more.“
"Our world is a gift. And we must refuse it.”
“All I offer you is hardship and death.”
“You will walk in a deeper dark than this world has ever known.“
“I have been the best thing I can think to be.”
“Is this the best thing you could think to be?”
“Do you understand what you’ve done? Have you reckoned the full cost?”
“I will do it out of hate for you.”
“No forgiveness. Do you understand me? It is unforgivable.”
“I’m not coming with you.”
“There is a war, and its name is existence.”
“It feels as if all these old wounds in my soul are opening up again.”
“I saw your face in my dream. I saw your eyes. I heard your voice.“
"We’re in Death’s dominion now.”