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“It's such a liability to love another person.”
― White Oleander
― White Oleander
“Attachment,” Buddha had said, “is the cause of grief.”
― The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea
― The Living Reed: A Novel of Korea
“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“She expected the pain, when it came. But she gasped at its sharpness; it was not like any pain she had felt before. He kissed her and slowed and would have stopped. But she laughed, and said that this one time she would consent to hurt, and bleed, at his touch. He smiled into her neck and kissed her again and she moved with him through the pain. The pain became a warmth that grew. Grew, and stopped her breath. And took her breath and her pain and her mind away from her body, so that there was nothing but her body and his body and the light and fire they made together.”
― Graceling
― Graceling
“The bar staff and croupiers all wore black with the same green triangle logo emblazoned on their shirts, and contact lenses which made their eyes shine an eerie, vibrant green. The bar optics glowed with the same green light, the intensity of which was linked to the music. As the bartender walked away to fetch the drinks, a breakdown in the techno track commenced and the bottles began to palpitate. The bartender's eyes glowed with a hallucinatory felinity that made Mangle feel nervous.”
― The Zombie Room
― The Zombie Room
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