“She’s the only divine thing he’s ever believed in. The only creature in this vast, cruel land who could kill him. And sometimes, in his loveliest dreams, he imagines she does.”
― The Drowning Faith
― The Drowning Faith
“I have become something wonderful, she thought. I have become something terrible. Was she now a goddess or a monster? Perhaps neither. Perhaps both.”
― The Poppy War
― The Poppy War
“Ruin me, ruin us, and I’ll let you.”
― The Burning God
― The Burning God
“I will simply go where it is dark again.” Addie rises, goes to the window, and draws the curtains closed, plunging the room back into lightless black. “There,” she says, feeling her way back to him. “Now it is dark again.” Luc laughs, a soft, beautiful sound, and pulls her down into the bed.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“And she wonders what it was that drew her here the first time.
Wonders if they are like magnets, she and Luc.
If they have circled each other for so long that now they share an orbit.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Wonders if they are like magnets, she and Luc.
If they have circled each other for so long that now they share an orbit.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
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