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One more step, and he needed a physical body for this part. Then the grand work would be complete.
Ghostwater (Cradle book 5), Will Wight
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One more step, and he needed a physical body for this part. Then the grand work would be complete.
Ghostwater (Cradle book 5), Will Wight
He leaned forward and put his head in his hands. “If you wanted to shame me before sending me off in defeat, you’ve succeeded. Do what you will.”
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“I don’t want to send you off in defeat,” Lindon said honestly. He waited until Northstrider looked up to say, “I want to send you off in victory. You won a long time ago.”
Waybound (Cradle book 12), Will Wight
This was a creature of pure rage and pain. It hated everything, and wanted to destroy anything it could reach. Itself, perhaps, most of all.
Waybound (Cradle book 12), Will Wight
[That’s the spirit! Now, get ready, because we’re starting in one second.] Ziel had been ready for years.
Waybound (Cradle book 12), Will Wight
Dross’ comedic timing is hit-or-miss for me sometimes, but usually it’s really funny. Especially this time. No time like the climax to drop a joke.
“Don’t worry, I know Naru Huan well. He will appreciate this.”
Something in Eithan’s tone made Lindon look closer at his face. “Will he really?”
“The word ‘appreciate’ can have so many definitions, don’t you think?”
Reaper (Cradle book 10), Will Wight
“You have to choose what you want to be,” I said, echoing my father’s words from from long ago. Words I’d routinely chosen to ignore. “And you have to keep making that choice. Over and over. Every decision you make is a hammer striking chisel. It’s not as simple as good or bad. It’s never that easy. All that matters is that, at the end of the day, the existence you carve out for yourself is something you’d be happy with.”
Delve is not a perfect story. It is a bit self-congratulatory much like a lot of rationalist fiction, although this may be me reading too much into it. The main character is isekai'ed from Canada into a world that is as imperfect as Earth is, but with magic, so its set of societal problems are different in a few ways. He tries to get strong and help others and it's better than some isekai but...well, anyway, I like the story a lot, and I tend to hedge any praise I give to anything because I want to pre-empt any criticism with some half-hearted criticism of my own.
Anyway, there was a quote that's come to mind several times in the past few weeks after I read it. The main character, Rain, is walking through a town with his companions, and as adventurers they are naturally far stronger than the townsfolk. The townsfolk are wary and a bit hostile to them because of how adventurers normally are. Rain gets pissed that there's such a vast gap of power, and at the broken systems in the world as a whole.
The quote in question, though it's really just that last sentence:
Grinding his teeth, Rain continued following after Nicket, composing another update for Ameliah to distract himself from the sudden anger burning in his heart. It didn't really work. He was tired. Beyond tired. "I'll fix it," he muttered. "I have to fix it."
"What was that, Rain?" Jamus asked.
"Nothing," Rain replied, correcting himself. WE'LL fix it. Fix this stupid world. One starfish at a time if we have to.
This was what a real sacred artist looked like. This was the sort of power Lindon wanted.
The power he would gain on his Path.
Unsouled (Cradle book 1), Will Wight