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“Dreamers like your wife are limited, little Helldiver.” She makes sure I don’t speak. “Understand that. The only power they have is in death. The harder they die, the louder their voice, the deeper the echoes. But your wife served her purpose.”
― Pierce Brown, Red Rising

“Going through the mirrors requires confronting yourself. You need guts, you know, to look yourself straight in the eyes, to see yourself as you are, to dive into your own reflection. Those who hide their faces, those who lie to themselves, those who see themselves better than they are, they will never be able. So believe me, it doesn't run the sidewalks!”
― Christelle Dabos, A Winter's Promise

“The first time I saw you, I formed a very poor opinion of you. I thought you had no common sense and no character, and wouldn't make it to the marriage. That would forever remain the biggest mistake of my life.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“Try your dears.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“She knew with absolute certainty that from the moment they separated, she would never know warmth again.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“Danger is part of our life," he told her, solemnly. "I'm fighting for a different future, and I believe you are, too at your own level and in your own way. I will not abandon my post, just as you didn't abandon yours. It's up to us to see our choices out to the end, am I not right?”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“Men rebuild what other men have destroyed.”
― Christelle Dabos, The Missing of Clairdelune

“The first time I saw you, I formed a very poor opinion of you. I thought you had no common sense and no character, and wouldn't make it to the marriage. That will forever remain the biggest mistake of my life.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune

“You are not a doll," Ophelia asserted, with all the breath she had. "You don't have to fulfill another's dream."
"I must do what is written," Farouk repeated, unperturbed. "Open the door."
The three policemen responsible for the unlocking mechanism moved towards Ophelia, but she stood firm and God's words emerged from her body, as if they had, inexplicably, always been there, lurking in the corner of her being, waiting for their time to come: "Your Book is but the start of your story, Odin. It's up to you alone to write the ending.”
― Christelle Dabos, Les Disparus du Clairdelune