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I didn’t realize I was shivering until Judicus took my hand and held it between his. “Here, let me warm this. You’re too cold,” he said, and it felt both kind and attentive and made me feel awkward all at once.
“For in looking at evil, we are more easily tainted by it. In using power, we are more susceptible to its use.”
― Fae Captive
― Fae Captive
“Hope is a torturous thing. It wrenches one from despair just long enough to allow one to take a breath before plunging her back beneath the icy waters. If it wasn't for those breaths, it would be easy to let ice claim the soul. Easy to let surrender swallow the struggle. But hope - cruel mistress that she is - is not satisfied with so neat an ending. Like a house cat with a tiny prisoner, she wants only to torment the soul again, and again, until it dies from a burst heart.”
― Give Your Heart to the Barrow
― Give Your Heart to the Barrow
“I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?”
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
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