It never occurred to me that love could be anything other than all-consuming. Even as a child, I knew I never wanted anything less.
“That’s a very real fact of life. I live in a constant state of wanting you. I have since I was seventeen years old. Wanting you is all I know.”
― Variation
― Variation
“So she read the novels about slow, incremental improvement, about sisters who were also good friends, women who were too witty for the sincerity of their landscapes, women who were above marriage and its conventions and, yet, got to be beautiful and experience the joys of it anyway. She devoted her career to these books because she needed them.”
― The Wedding People
― The Wedding People
“She’d joined the Army to find her brother and found herself instead; in war, she’d found out who she really was and who she wanted to be, and as tired as she was of all the death and destruction, she was also more than a little afraid to go home. What would life look like stateside?”
― The Women
― The Women
“The last time a shadow and lightning wielder fought side by side, they managed to drive the venin back into the Barrens for a few hundred years. We’ll figure out how to do it again.”
― Onyx Storm
― Onyx Storm
“Imagine being down so bad you’d master a whole Olympic sport to spend time with someone.”
― The Favorites
― The Favorites
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