Mmm. Hmm. Maybe I can move things around and use that one.
Let me see if I can explain what I'm doing without giving anything away. I have ten characters for whom I need oaths/promises/declarations. They all have to be approximately about the same thing, although the actual expression varies wildly based on the personality of the individual characters involved, in that they are all references to other sources which resonate on some level with who the individual character is.
I have nine of these ten oaths. The last one I'm looking for is for someone who is rough around the edges, violent, who fell by into darkness (not entirely by their own fault) and clawed their way back to the light. Their oath ought to have something that alludes to that, and their determination to stay in the light.
I might be able to repurpose one of my existing selections for them, and replace it with the Le Guin quote above -- but I'm sure there's something ideal out there. I just have to find it.
I'd list the nine I've already selected, except I think there might be just enough of a hint in them that you might figure out what I'm doing (hell, one is a dead giveaway). And I don't want to spoil the moment when it finally comes.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Let me see if I can explain what I'm doing without giving anything away. I have ten characters for whom I need oaths/promises/declarations. They all have to be approximately about the same thing, although the actual expression varies wildly based on the personality of the individual characters involved, in that they are all references to other sources which resonate on some level with who the individual character is.
I have nine of these ten oaths. The last one I'm looking for is for someone who is rough around the edges, violent, who fell by into darkness (not entirely by their own fault) and clawed their way back to the light. Their oath ought to have something that alludes to that, and their determination to stay in the light.
I might be able to repurpose one of my existing selections for them, and replace it with the Le Guin quote above -- but I'm sure there's something ideal out there. I just have to find it.
I'd list the nine I've already selected, except I think there might be just enough of a hint in them that you might figure out what I'm doing (hell, one is a dead giveaway). And I don't want to spoil the moment when it finally comes.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.