‘There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.
“I made you into my private Christ, supplicated with my own dark devotions. Nothing existed beyond the range of your exacting gaze, not even me. I was simply a non-entity when you weren't looking at me, an empty vessel waiting to be filled by the sweet water of your attention.
A woman can't live like that, my Lord. No one can. Don't ask me why I did it.
God, forgive me.
Christ, forgive me.”
― A Dowry of Blood
A woman can't live like that, my Lord. No one can. Don't ask me why I did it.
God, forgive me.
Christ, forgive me.”
― A Dowry of Blood
“To be woman is to be a sacrifice.”
― The Year of the Witching
― The Year of the Witching
“There’s no misery so deep as one you face by yourself. No nights darker than ones you spend alone. But you can learn to live with any weight. Your scars grow thick enough, they become armour.”
― Empire of the Vampire
― Empire of the Vampire
“War is the whetstone that grinds down all sense, all humanity.”
― A Dowry of Blood
― A Dowry of Blood
“Good people don't bow their heads and bite their tongues while other good people suffer. Good people are not complicit.”
― The Year of the Witching
― The Year of the Witching
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