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“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”
― Marissa Meyer, Scarlet

“Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences...”
― R.A. MacAvoy, The Book of Kells

“Nothing is as certain as a closed mind”
― Lord Dunsany (Edward J M D Plunkett)

“There is always a moment when stories end, a moment when everything is blue and black and silent, and the teller does not want to believe it is over, and the listener does not, and so they both hold their breath and hope fervently as pilgrims that it is not over, that there are more tales to come, more and more, fitted together like a long chain coiled in the hand. They hold their breath; the trees hold theirs, the air and the ice and the wood and the Gate. But no breath can be held forever, and all tales end.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, In the Cities of Coin and Spice