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But his eyes—hard and black and keen, and so shiny it almost hurt to look at them—didn’t peer through the spectacles at all. I had a suspicion that they were just for show.
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“It seemed the night skies were littered with mortals who had encountered the gods and now stood as blazing examples to the world below of what the immortals could do.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“Why did I, Phaedra of Knossos and Athens, put my faith in a man? When I should have seen that what I truly wanted was simply to run away.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
“We’re never inside someone else’s head. We can never really know someone else’s thoughts. And it’s thoughts that count. Thought is reality. Actions can be faked.”
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
― I'm Thinking of Ending Things
“Was it better to trust or better to be wary? Could you have a real friendship if some part of you was always expecting betrayal?”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
“He was that impossibly rare thing—a man who was exactly who he presented himself to be. The wonder of it—I could not help marveling at him.”
― Ariadne
― Ariadne
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