“The most terrible things men do, they do in the name of love."— Madame Dorothea”
― City of Bones
― City of Bones
“I thought of you with your hair silver as snow all through that cold, slow journey from Sirle. I felt you troubled deep within me, and there was no other place in the world I would rather have been than in the cold night riding to you. When you opened your gates to me, I was home.”
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
― The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“You think I tell you stories to teach you lessons? the monster said. You think I have coming walking out of time and earth itself to teach you a lesson in niceness?”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
“Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth.”
― A Monster Calls
― A Monster Calls
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