“She'd disappeared like a broken star, leaving the world untouched, save for the bits of missing light that no one would ever see again.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“And yet my heart is buried with you in the strange soil of the mortal world, as it was drowned with you in the cold waters of the undersea.
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
It was yours before I could ever admit it, and yours it shall ever remain.”
― The Queen of Nothing
“Some things are worth pursuit regardless of the cost.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“Scarlet had never wanted time to stop before, to slip into a crawl so slow that one heartbeat would take a year, a breath would take a lifetime, and a touch could last an eternity. Usually she wanted the opposite, for time to speed up, race ahead, so that she could escape any current pain and move forward into a new, unblemished moment.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
“It tasted like the moment before night gives birth to morning; it was the end of one thing and the beginning of something else all wrapped up together.”
― Caraval
― Caraval
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