“We sin. And yet something calls us towards perfection. Do you know why? Because we’re good for it. We have the capacity to examine our lives and improve, to change. But we can’t do it just on our own.”
― The Q
― The Q
“I shake my head, too overwhelmed to mourn what might never be. It’s such a singular weight—a wistful sorrow at best, the death of ten thousand promises at worst.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
“Father has always claimed I am created from humors that favor clarity and resilience. “You’ve an instinct, Ember, to see clearly. Follow that. Don’t diminish it by fear. The resilience that twins such clear vision is a grace, for it will see you through the knocks and twists of life while your clarity leads you right. Hold to it.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
“You’re not the usual beauty, spending all her bloom in hardly a handful of years. Some girls are like that, all flimsy flash, set to wear out into plainness as they age. But your loveliness is that of a sage. It is well set and will only increase. You’ve a steadiness of countenance worthy of the courts three hundred years ago, the courts he knew well.” She shakes her head.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
“But I do know that these lanterns wouldn’t be half so remarkable were they not set in darkness. Dispelling darkness is the province of light.” I hold his gaze but don’t answer. “Light is the only thing that grows stronger when darkness deepens,” he continues as he goes back to his work. “It is the way of things.”
― The Beast of Ten
― The Beast of Ten
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