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Mary Beth
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“Leah.' Mom shakes her head. 'You've got to stop doing this.'
'Doing what?'
'Burning everything to the ground whenever something goes wrong.”
― Leah on the Offbeat
'Doing what?'
'Burning everything to the ground whenever something goes wrong.”
― Leah on the Offbeat
“Dreams are not the safest thing to build a life on.”
― Call Down the Hawk
― Call Down the Hawk
“Meeting you was a disaster.”
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Crooked Kingdom
She raised a brow. “Thank you.”
Djel, he was terrible at this. He stumbled on, trying to make her understand. “But I am grateful for that disaster. I needed a catastrophe to shake me from the life I knew. You were an earthquake, a landslide.”
“I,” she said, planting a hand on her hip, “am a delicate flower.”
“You aren’t a flower, you’re every blossom in the wood blooming at once. You are a tidal wave. You’re a stampede. You are overwhelming.”
― Crooked Kingdom
“This object that we hold in our hands, a book…that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.”
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“You are my temple,” I murmur as I kneel beside her. “You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release.”
― A Torch Against the Night
― A Torch Against the Night
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