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“To lose something you never had can be just as painful—because it is the hope of having it that you lose. The hope that in this world, there are magical fish who will give you advice and warning, when really, the future is unknowable and infinitely dangerous.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Wasn't playing with her heart once enough? Hadn't he already torn her into two and left her to the wolves once before?”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“Suddenly evil isn’t punching people or even hating them. Suddenly it’s all that stuff you’ve left undone. All the kindness you could have given. All the excuses you gave instead.”
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
― Everything Sad Is Untrue
“Memories were beastly little creatures, after all—they rose with the faintest whiff of nourishment.”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“And he mourned for her. He didn’t wish to, but he did—he ached with the knowledge that the softness of their youth was gone forever, that the Juliette he remembered was long dead. He ached even more to think that though he was the one who had dealt the killing blow,”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
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