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“Robin managed to hold his tongue on something truly unwise like ‘You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I’d like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you to stop talking about the things that interest you.”
― Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light

“I love you,” Severin said, looking up, looking at nothing at all, his face exultant. “I love you like in the storybooks. I love you like in the ballads. I love you like a lightning bolt. I’ve loved you since the third month you came and spoke with me. I loved that you made me want to laugh. I loved the way you were kind and the way you would pause when you spoke, as though you were waiting for me to answer you. I love you and I am mocking no one when I kiss you, no one at all.”
― Holly Black, The Darkest Part of the Forest

“And later, as the bells for Matins sounded in the dark and she walked back in the darkness as though blind, she wondered if in fact this has been the closest she had been to God—not in fact invisible parent, not sun warming the earth and coaxing the seeds from the soil—but the nothing at the center of the self.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“People don’t understand,” he said, his face softening. “Those of us who live to create, who throw ourselves upon the altar of art and bleed and bleed for it… how could we ever really inhabit the same world as those who simply dress for the day and read the paper and never dream that they could be the god of something new?”
― Lex Croucher, Infamous