“ It's a rare gift to understand that your life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever. ”
She felt an enveloping happiness to be alive, a joy made stronger by the certainty that someday it would all come to an end. Afterward she felt a little foolish, and never spoke to anyone about it. Now, however, she knows she wasn't being foolish. She realizes that for no particular reason she stumbled into the core of what it is to be human. It's a rare gift to under stand that you life is wondrous, and that it won't last forever.
~ Steven Galloway
By the time the last few notes fade, his hope will be restored, but each time he's force to resort to the Adagio it becomes harder, and he knows its effect is finite. There are only a certain number of Adagios left in him, and he will not recklessly spend this precious currency.
A weapon does not decide whether or not to kill. A weapon is a manifestation of a decision that has already been made.
I will not live in a city where dead bodies lie abandoned in the streets, and you will not tell the world I do.
