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It was she who whispered to you the arc of each blade, the weight of each blow, so that battle lost all immediacy for you and became something more like a memory, a set of elegant red steps you’d learned long ago.
“She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her.”
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
― Their Eyes Were Watching God
“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Frankenstein
― Frankenstein
“All she had ever wanted, all she had ever lived for, was the inverse of this perverse imprisonment. To command her own life. To command her own body, to decide to whom it was given and when.”
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
“Just his luck that the sensation of dancing with her had branded itself on his daydreams. She was like a palmful of mercury: achingly lustrous in light or gloom, slipping cool through his fingers. Gone before he could catch his fist closed.”
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
― The Possession of Alba Díaz
“novels are untrustworthy advisers. They aren't concerned with rationality or sobriety; they peddle in tragedy and suspense, in chaos and rule breaking, in madness and heartache, and they will steer you toward such things with all the guile of a piper luring rats into a river.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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