The Sword and the Hearth
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“The sword shapes the world, but the hearth gives it meaning.”
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“You don’t lead by shouting the loudest—you lead by bleeding first.”
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“If we fight only to live, we will forget why we lived at all.”
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“Britannia doesn’t need kings. It needs people who refuse to fall.”
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“They took everything but the fire inside me—and that was the one thing they should have feared.”
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“Grief is the tax we pay for loyalty.”
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“Slavery did not break me. It just made me quieter.”
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“She did not ask me to lead. She asked me to stay.”
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“Not all battles are fought with blades. Some are won in silence.”
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“I never wanted to be a hero. I only wanted to go home.”
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“Maev looked at me as if the war had never touched me. That was the greatest mercy.”
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“History does not remember kindness, but men do.”
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“Every hearth tells a story. This one began with fire.”
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“Victory is written in ash and bone. But so is love.”
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“You learn quickly what you are when all you love is ash.”
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“I was no one’s son. No one’s heir. Only the boy who kept walking.”
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“Hope was a fragile thing, and yet I clung to it like a blade.”
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“In a world of ruins, she was the one thing I wanted to build.”
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“The gods were silent. The winds were not.”
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“To love someone is to fight a different kind of war.”
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