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“Beware the storyteller with a huge grievance and an artistic license.”
― Joyce Rachelle

“   "The Kniaz is a handsome man," said one of her ladies-in-waiting.
   "He is handsome and noble," added the Kniahynia, reflecting, "but his hands are awash with blood. The blood of my master, my husband - and a warrior demands revenge! I could love him, if I did not have to hate him with all my heart.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Bloody Wedding in Kyiv: Two Tales of Olha, Kniahynia of Kyivan Rus

“Revenge is a color, a color that never fades. A beautiful color. It is the color of the sky at dawn when lovers are hauled out of their beds and garroted in the middle of the street; the color of the ancient sea when Noah’s Ark has been breached below the water line; the color of Jacob’s Ladder as it collapses while Jacob has climbed only half-way to heaven. But it is more than that, much more. It contains the pigment that colors the eyes of the lovers that betray you.”
― Mark Romel, The Mistletoe Murders: A Nietzschean Murder Mystery

“And round them, as in them, was a great Darkness....”
― Maurice Level