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“There is such a thing as evil in this world,” Elias told her quietly. “It does not help to look away from it. It does not even help necessarily to look at it.” His fingers brushed through her hair, and she shivered. “But sometimes, when
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“And life is more changeable than I thought. I mean a life can be miserable for a long time and then later happy. It’s not just one thing or another—it doesn’t get fixed into a groove called ‘personality’ and then run along that way until the end.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“If God wanted me to give you up, he wouldn't have made me who I am.”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
“Monsters were nothing. The true terrors were people like me—the ones who saw suffering, who heard the screams of a hundred generations echoing for miles around them—and still did nothing.”
― Raybearer
― Raybearer
“Things were allowed to be complicated. They were allowed to be messy. We were allowed to disagree and argue and even hurt each other, on occasion, and it didn’t mean it was time to let the revolving door of life carry us away from each other. Sometimes things are hard. They just are.”
― Funny Story
― Funny Story
“And isn’t death just the apocalypse in the first person?”
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
― Beautiful World, Where Are You
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