“We truly are ripples on the lake. However, unlike the water’s ripples, the ripples of life don’t end in death. They carry on in everyone we touch, even if we can’t see it. They echo for eternity, and, in that way, we truly are immortal.”
― The Orphans of Kashmir
― The Orphans of Kashmir
“Love is a coincidence that is never permanent,” he answered discreetly. “It is inertia, remember, inertia...”
― A Story of Yesterday
― A Story of Yesterday
“The sunset bled into the edges of the village. Smoke curled out of the cottage chimney like a crooked finger.”
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
― Being a Witch, and Other Things I Didn't Ask For
“now he knew that there were communities everywhere, sprinkled across the vast landscape of the known world, in which people suffered. Not always from beatings and hunger, the way he had. But from ignorance. From not knowing. From being kept from knowledge.”
― Messenger
― Messenger
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