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“First they showed me that the war so often vaunted between them was a falsity created by the serpent to sow division and strife and unhappiness in the world. For, I saw, it was from Eve‘s taste of the forbidden fruit that knowledge came, and with knowledge the ability to understand the perfection of the fruit of Mary’s womb and the gift given to the world. And without the flaw of Eve there could be no purity of Mary. And without the womb of Eve, which is the House of Death, there could be no womb of Mary, which is the House of Life. Without the first matrix, there could be no salvatrix, the greatest matrix of all.”
― Lauren Groff, Matrix

“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

“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

“Time is our friend in trouble,” she said, “because it tells us that the sorrow cannot last for ever.”
― Jean Plaidy, The Lady in the Tower