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-But in the end, while I wish I had done a few things differently ... I wouldn't change all of it.
-And why is that?
-Because I stopped reading and started doing. - Vhalla smiled faintly at the memory of Aldrik's words at their first meeting - I messed up so badly. I didn't love some friends enough. Sometimes I focused on myself more than others. But if I hadn't made those mistakes, I wouldn't be strong enough to look to the future now and not be afraid.

You won't ever have everyone love you, just as you won't have everyone hate you. Find the right people to love you and return the hatred of others with ambivaence or hatred of your own.

Every chance worth taking will make you a little scared. That means you're taking a risk. And where there is risk, there is reward.

He held her gaze with every bit of adoration the world had been capable of producing.

-We all believe in you two. We are all fighting for you. Do you know why?
She shook her head. She didn't have the faintest idea.
-Because you two represent something, something more than you do individually. You are the impossible dreamers. The two who took on fate to be together. No one believed you could be anything. More than once, you both strove for more, for dreams that you should've never dreamed.
So when you say you fight for peace, people believe it. Because you have cheated death and fate. Compare to that, finding peace will surely be easy.

- I love you, Aldrik. - Vhalla savoured his touch as he palmed her face. - And I fear I always will.
- Ah, Vhalla. - He chuckled, pausing just before his lips came in contact with hers. - That is the one thing I do not fear.

Her lover's eyes searched her desperately. Anger quickly turned into fear that she would agree with Elecia. That she would leave him. Vhalla knew that logic defined it as the "right" choice. But what they were, everything she and Aldrik had ever been, defied logic.

Quit this noble nonsense and be the insane asshole I want!

You believe me? - she asked.
I do - the man affirmed with minimal hesitation. -No one in their right mind would admit to being Vhalla Yarl if they weren't actually Vhalla Yarl.

I know - he was half talking to himself - I have been there. It feels like there is no other choice. That the world is too heavy, too horrible to ever lessen. I know that you will hate me, hate us, hate her, for not letting you sit here and die.
But someday, when you are happy and content - and I know you will not believe me when I tell you that you will someday be happy and content again - you will thank us. You will thank us for not letting you leave this mortal coil without a fight because you have more to give.

[..] Każda szansa, którą warto wykorzystać, wzbudzi w tobie trochę strachu. To znaczy, że podejmujesz ryzyko. A gdzie jest ryzyko, tam jest też nagroda.