“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it—to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger. But Ansel let her pain become hate, and let it consume her until she became something else entirely—a person I don’t think she ever wished to be”
― The Assassin and the Desert
― The Assassin and the Desert
“Words could be just as deadly as steel.”
― The Assassin and the Desert
― The Assassin and the Desert
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