And if she is too long and lean, too wild to be considered comely, the strangeness of her hair has made her something even better. Striking.
“He died that way, alone in his bed, afraid to leave, afraid to stay, afraid to whisper anything but 'tomorrow.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“Fear nothing, and you will become greater than them all.”
― 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.”
― The Familiar
― 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.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
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