Without her voice, she is nothing. Without her song, she doesn’t exist. She can feel herself starting to disappear, the shadow of something that was great.
“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled—not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it”
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“Perhaps home, like the moon, will follow wherever she goes.”
― The Immortalists
― The Immortalists
“No thinking, just doing. When you think about things too long, you just talk yourself out of them.”
― The Wicked Deep
― The Wicked Deep
“remember that to use a thing is not to own it. And should you ever take a bride, listen closely to her questions. In them you may hear her true name like the thunder of a lost river, like the sighing of the sea.”
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
― The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic
“We didn’t know yet that for us there was no such thing as just sadness, that our grief had a life of its own, an invisible mouth like a black hole that drew us inexorably closer.”
― All the Names They Used for God
― All the Names They Used for God
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