azz

“I never told you I couldn’t read.” “You let me believe it.” “It’s good to let a man have his illusions,” Luzia said.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar, The Familiar

“There was pleasure in this sadness. It was the feeling of remembering great happiness you will never have again, the first flush of desire you know will never be consummated but that you can't help but hope for anyway, the desperate longing to see your beloved even when you know you are not loved in return.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“He died that way, alone in his bed, afraid to leave, afraid to stay, afraid to whisper anything but 'tomorrow.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar

“She closed her eyes, and her sigh of pleasure made him wonder, for the first time in many years, if God was real and testing him.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Familiar