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“they asked "do you love her to death?"

i said "speak of her over my grave and watch how she brings me back to life”
― Mahmoud Darwish

“I felt her sigh, and when she breathed her sadness out, I breathed it in.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers! Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever livèd in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood!”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains

“Why, James?” Meredith said, quietly, reproachfully, as if he had somehow betrayed her. “You of all people should understand . . . We don’t owe him anything.”
― M.L. Rio, If We Were Villains