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“a friend she can be bad enough. The thought of having her as an enemy is frankly terrifying.”
― The Hunting Party
― The Hunting Party
“I love you," you said into my mouth. It sounded like you were drawing up a peace treaty to protect the boundary lines of contested ground.”
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“I was tried of being your Magdalene. I was tried of waiting expectantly at your tomb every night for you to rise and bring light into my world once again.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“In this world, you are what I say you are, and I say you are a ghost, a long night's fever dream that I have finally woken up from. I say you are the smoke-wisp memory of a flame, thawing ice suffering under an early spring sun, a chalk ledger of debts being wiped clean.
I say you do not have a name.”
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I say you do not have a name.”
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“I made you into my private Christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions. Nothing existed beyond the range of your exacting gaze, not even me. I was simply a non-entity when you weren't looking at me, an empty vessel waiting to be filled by the sweet water of your attention.
A woman can't live like that, my Lord. No one can. Don't ask me why I did it.
God, forgive me.
Christ, forgive me.”
― A Dowry of Blood
A woman can't live like that, my Lord. No one can. Don't ask me why I did it.
God, forgive me.
Christ, forgive me.”
― A Dowry of Blood
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