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Jake was funny. Or he at least had a sense of humor. I still didn’t think he was as funny as me. Most men I meet aren’t.
“You can picture it, can't you? The moment when time caught to us, the slant of light in which the familiar turned strange.”
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“In the end, a fairy tale is nothing more than a sense of hope. Hope lures and tricks. It tempts with shining thrones, exquisite nectars, and loving arms. It whispers to us that we are extraordinary. Exempt. Thus lured, we follow its path. Sometimes we are led to riches. Other times, we are led astray. But this hope never hides its shape, and for its honesty we reach for it and pull its sweet and stinking furs up to our chins, for to live without it means living without magic.”
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“You warned me that knowing your secret would destroy us. At first, it sat in our marriage like a blue- lipped ghost, hardly noticeable until a trick of the light drew it into focus. But you could always tell the days when it gnawed at my thoughts. You tried to comfort me. You stroked my face and curled my fingers to your heart. You said: “If you pry, you’ll destroy our marriage.” But oh, my love, you lied.”
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“In fairy tales, a kiss marks a threshold—between the state of being cursed or cured lies a kiss. But not all kisses cure; some kill. Thresholds go both ways, after all. I wasn’t thinking about this when Indigo drew me to her beneath the chandeliers of her Paris hotel. At the time, I wished only to trap her laughter under glass. I could not hear, back then, how uncannily triumphant the sound was.”
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
― The Last Tale of the Flower Bride
“Hades, all the fine suits in the world won't change the fact that you stink of death.”
― Lore Olympus: Volume One
― Lore Olympus: Volume One
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