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“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“There is no comfort like complicity.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“For someone who loved words as much as I did, it was amazing how often they failed me.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“If you love me, Henry, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
― Crush
― Crush
“One thing I'm sure Colborne will never understand is that I need language to live, like food—lexemes and morphemes and morsels of meaning nourish me with the knowledge that, yes, there is a word for this. Someone else has felt it before.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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