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“I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me.”
― The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
― The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
“Danger has a bracing effect.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“I giggled out loud at his stupidity. If anyone knew how to make a bed, it was a faggot.”
― Naked
― Naked
“for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.”
― Le Mort d'Arthur, Volume 1
― Le Mort d'Arthur, Volume 1
“Was it all in my head? A Lunar trick?”
Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—”
The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie.
“I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air.
Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.”
― Cinder
Her stomach twisted. “No.” She shook her head, fervently. How to explain that she hadn’t had the gift before? That she couldn’t have used it against him? “I would never lie—”
The words faded. She had lied. Everything he knew about her had been a lie.
“I’m so sorry,” she finished, the words falling lamely in the open air.
Kai peeled his eyes away, finding some place of resignation off in the glistening garden. “You’re even more painful to look at than she is.”
― Cinder
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