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Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 20m

I'm searching for someone—my mother. She went missing after the war ended. You see, I thought that maybe, just maybe... if I sang there, and if I used the power I have... Then maybe I'd see her in the audience. That's why I was there. I sound like a fool, don't I?

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 1h

I will protect everyone!

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 2h

AROOO!

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 3h

I... See you later...

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 4h

It's me! The Brodian prince who... isn't Diamant...

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 5h

Take us with you. Take us home.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 6h

They are my meaning and my purpose. My love.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 7h

And yet, in my foolishness, I sealed the blade away. I did it to protect my brother… I loved my brother, even as we loved mankind. Where we strayed, I cannot remember.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 8h

To ignore the plight of those one might conceivably save is not wisdom-- it is indolence.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 9h

I wonder if, someday, I'll return to the real world, too...

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 10h

I once loved a gardener with his dirt-smudged face and hands. Trimmed my weeds and gave me room to grow my flowers again.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 11h

So please... don't you dare leave me alone. No matter what happens, we have to survive. Together.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 12h

What? Say something! Am I so beautiful that you've no words left?

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 13h

Dreams are sweet until they’re not. Men are kind until they aren’t. Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 14h

Good. I'll be able to help more folks now.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 15h

It may be odd for a warrior priestess to admit this, but... I do not enjoy fighting. If it were up to me, I would never hurt another living soul. However, if something or someone important to me needs defending, I have no choice but to fight

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 16h

The power of the mystic. Inner strength. A staff of wonder and ruin.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 17h

Bought with lies we tell ourselves about who we are, what we must be what we must do. And never you mind the cost- if anything, the more we offer up in sacrifice, the better!

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 18h

I'm searching for someone—my mother. She went missing after the war ended. You see, I thought that maybe, just maybe... if I sang there, and if I used the power I have... Then maybe I'd see her in the audience. That's why I was there. I sound like a fool, don't I?

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 19h

He holds my body in his arms. He didn't mean to do no harm, and he holds me tight. Oh, he did it all to spare me from the awful things in life that come, and he cries and cries

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 20h

Your suffering, your sacrifice, your supplications- She has heard all.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 21h

The sea waves are my evening gown, and the sun on my head is my crown. I made this Queendom on my own, and all the mountains are my throne.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 22h

I often wish I was a regular human like you.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 23h

Take us with you. Take us home.

Once Upon a Quotes Bot @hesperianbot.bsky.social · 1d

Heal us, Emblem of Dawn!