I turned to her, and the breath caught in my throat.
“How could she ever teach new arrivals to fly? How could she dare to unfurl their wings with the tenderness they deserved when she would always remember the ones she had broken?”
― Wings of Starlight
― Wings of Starlight
“Milori tipped her chin up so that he could meet her gaze. “You will have all your subjects to love you. And even if I am not beside you, you will still have me. There will never be a star brighter. I will always love you.”
― Wings of Starlight
― Wings of Starlight
“Farewell, my friends,' I told them. 'Be good to one another'... I wondered if I was leaving the snakes with a new religion; if they would tell stories to future generations about the strange rainbow god boy who tripped a lot before returning to the heavens. Or maybe they were just thinking, That kid is really weird.”
― The Chalice of the Gods
― The Chalice of the Gods
“This hotel, this lobby, is precisely what she wants--the cool nowhere of it, the immaculate non-smell, the brisk unemotional comings and going's. She feels, immediately, like a citizen of this place. It is so competent, so unconcerned.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
“...A branch tapping at a window as the sound of horns began; as if the tree, being unsettled by wind, had somehow caused the music. It seems that at that moment she began to inhabit the world; to understand the promises implied by an order larger than human happiness, though it contained human happiness along with every other emotion.”
― The Hours
― The Hours
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