Advice from the villain
Hearing the poison spreads the poison.
“Love? Love ties us down. Slows us to a crawl. Love satisfies. And when, in all the years of this world, did a satisfied man ever strive for more? Love is a slow-working poison that will kill your dreams, if you let it. Nuture hate instead. Hate will make you work harder than you ever knew possible. Hate will make you strive. Hate will lift you up.”
And the hero heard the villain, and began to hate.
About the Creator
Roderick Makim
Read one too many adventure stories as a child and decided I'd make that my life.
I grew up on a cattle station in the Australian Outback and decided to spend the rest of my life seeing the rest of the world.
For more: www.roderickmakim.com
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