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“What a good boy.” He pauses, and then his voice goes softer. Darker. “Such a good listener.”
“I need language to live, like food - lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“The thing about Shakespeare is, he’s so eloquent … He speaks the unspeakable. He turns grief and triumph and rapture and rage into words, into something we can understand. He renders the whole mystery of humanity comprehensible.” I stop. Shrug. “You can justify anything if you do it poetically enough.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“Don't you know that you can have anything you want?" His eyes searched mine. "I'll hurt anyone for you."
The weight on my chest was too heavy, it almost hurt to breathe.
"Who is it?" he asked. "Who do I have to hurt?”
― Nightfall
The weight on my chest was too heavy, it almost hurt to breathe.
"Who is it?" he asked. "Who do I have to hurt?”
― Nightfall
“That loathsome opiate, relief, raced through my veins again—sharp and lucid at the initial prick, before everything went numb. I heard one of the others, maybe Filippa, exhale and I knew I wasn’t the only one who felt it. The moral outrage we should have suffered was quietly put down, suppressed like an unpleasant rumor before it had a chance to be heard. Whatever we did—or more crucially, did not do—it seemed that so long as we did it together, our individual sins might be abated. There is no comfort like complicity.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“But maybe every day we let grief in, we’ll also let a little bit of it out, and eventually we’ll be able to breathe again. At least, that’s how Shakespeare would tell the story. Hamlet says, Absent thee from felicity awhile. But just awhile. The show’s not over. Now cracks a noble heart. Goodnight. The rest of us must go on.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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