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// Random Cut Quotes 
// Story: The Stereotypical Drafts 
// by JinxTJL 
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/// The Fallibility of Strangers ///


"Why do you care? You are clearly in a situation that he had never expected; and to naively assume that he had should only beggar yet more distrust. Would that he cared what happened to you, do you not think he would have warned you? Is his startlingly inaccurate recount of your future as it has already transpired not cause for denouncement? At best, he is a long dead sorcerer from the distant past who did nothing but send you worthless materials and false prophecy; and at worst, he is nothing more than a charlatan persona created by my sister to have you effectively made worthless."



/// Vanity Come To Light ///


"This fool that sent you his books was a very vain stallion. I can only imagine that he thought he could compound the most 'brilliant' glossaries of the art ever created. It is sheer hubris, and nothing more; for he knew nothing of what a real Necromancer was."



/// Weight ///


She sighed again: staring down to Her helmet, which floated listlessly out to face up at Her, with something very quickly approaching regret. "The name was an invention of mine; a relic from before my banishment that I hoped would... ease the burden."

Her eye rose to his again: the mournful, pleading gaze sending heavy shivers down his stiff spine. "I had believed... if there were evil in my future, it would be easier instead to ascribe it a different name."



/// Proactive Measures ///


"You could have just waited for somepony evil to show up," he murmured: trying to look mostly at the floor because he knew that was weak.

Nightmare Moon coughed out a humorless laugh. "And stand idly by as my sister became that evil?" He forced his gaze back up, and She shook Her head reproachfully. "I could never."



/// Permanence ///


"Kings and Queens, Princesses and Gods: none are immutable. They wish themselves so, but are as much facts as you and I are. Harmony? Harmony is a fact."



/// Incomprehension ///


It was the inherency of an argument. It was an inexorable ideal spoken between an ephemeral idea. A written story always ended with a period, but this story- this reality was unfinished. The final, ultimate line stopped not with a period, nor trailed with an ellipses, but remained cracked barely open with a question mark.



/// Musings on War ///


"The so-called 'Annexation War' whence she raged 'gainst the Griffons! For all they had suffered in the past, when they dared to question my sister for my whereabouts, she would turn on them to reduce them to the sad state they live in today!"

"Then came 'Equestria's Sunset,' for which my sister had turned towards the Dragons, as though she alone could topple the giants of our world. Those beasts, feeling the heated flame within their hearts, would seek war regardless, yet my sister brought it foolishly to them!"

"It would never have been necessary had my sister not for so long met them with nothing but terse behaviors! Peace would have long since been amended had we simply met them by the will of Harmony!"



/// In Preemptive Memoriam ///


He trotted forward wordlessly, shaking his head no please you have to reconsider as he circled slowly to Her front: just to watch as Her head dipped further and Her eyes closed in quiet misery. "I am prepared to see mine own hooves covered in my subjects' blood. On the lonely moon, there was little else to do besides... prepare."



/// Back and Forth ///


-"Can't you see what you're doing? For all your lofty claims at understanding, you're not realizing just how much of a hypocrite you're being!" - "Fine! So what?! Maybe I am being hypocritical, but am I not allowed that for all my suffering?! Can I not, for one simple matter, be even slightly selfish?!" that to "Selfish? You think you're being selfish for that, of all things?" -something something- "In everything you've said, you've still not explained Eternal Night!" blah blah "I don't know! I- I can't remember why!"