“The circle of an empty day is brutal and at night it tightens around your neck like a noose.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
“I encourage people to remember that "no" is a complete sentence.”
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
― The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To the stars who listen— and the dreams that are answered.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.”
― The Road
― The Road
“What a mistake, above all, it had been to believe that I couldn't live without him, when for a long time I had not been at all certain that I was alive with him.”
― The Days of Abandonment
― The Days of Abandonment
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