“Everything in my life was merely prologue until now, merely delay, merely pastime, merely waste of time until I came to know you.”
― Find Me
― Find Me
“Each time I fall in love I feel fear that the world won't let me be in the world with it, that I either have to pick the world or the love.”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“Nothing you can take from me was ever worth keeping.”
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
― The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
“So now there is not even anyone to dream about, and what an odd feeling. I don’t have the strength to put together the features of a fantasy face. I am heartbroken over no one, over having nobody to wish for, nobody to hope for. I am heartbroken, usually, over someone. Now I am heartbroken over no one”
― Little Weirds
― Little Weirds
“Her death hit in waves. Not a flood, but water lapping steadily at her ankles. You could drown in two inches of water. Maybe grief was the same.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
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