"I always forget that safety is what's temporary while danger is eternal. Life isn't something we're owed. Life is a gift."
“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.”
― Circe
― Circe
“There are no monsters in the world, and no saints. Only infinite shades woven into the same tapestry, light and dark. One man’s monster is another man’s beloved. The wise know that.”
― The Winter of the Witch
― The Winter of the Witch
“He had been pleased about that when he heard, then horrified to be pleased, because being pleased with something so boring meant that without noticing, at no particular point that he could see, he had shrunk to fit the job.”
― The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
― The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
“All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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