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Have you ever asked yourself, do monsters make war, or does war make monsters? ... Armies need beasts, don’t they? Pet beasts, to do their terrible work! And the worst is, it’s almost impossible to retrieve a soul that has been ripped away. Almost. But it can be done, if ever… if ever you decide to go looking for yours.” ...

“Why would I do that? Where I come from, old man, a soul’s as useless as teeth to the dead.”

“Spoken, I think, by one who still remembers what it was like to have one.

Laini Taylor

Laini Taylor

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