“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing whatever's been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
“Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.”
― Oracle's Moon
― Oracle's Moon
“If you never love you never hurt
If you never hurt you've never lived.
Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it. ”
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If you never hurt you've never lived.
Love in life and embrace all the pains that come with it. ”
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“It isn't an easy thing to give your loyalty to someone you don't know, especially when that person chooses to reveal nothing of himself.”
― The King of Attolia
― The King of Attolia
“The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.”
― No Man Is an Island
― No Man Is an Island
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