“Walking into hell is always the easiest part. It’s coming back that takes work.”
“But she found a way. We always do, don’t we?”
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
“But she found a way. We always do, don’t we?”
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
“I would then write and rewrite and edit and rewrite and edit more and scrutinise the language until it no longer sounded like English and I had convinced myself was illiterate and no one had ever had the heart to tell me”
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
“Can we not simply be people, each of us with cogs in our brains that turn slightly differently, and some that need oiling and alignment and upkeep more than others?”
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
― The Nobleman's Guide to Scandal and Shipwrecks
“Truth is truth. Implications are subjective. People will hear your words and draw their own conclusion.”
― UnWholly
― UnWholly
“He will always be waiting, I realize. He will never go away. And in time, I may find myself his first mate whether I want to or not, journeying to points exotic so that I might make another dive, and another, and another. And maybe one day I'll dive so deep that the Abyssal Serpent will catch me, and I'll never find my way back. No sense in denying that such things happen.
But it's not going to happen today—and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till tomorrow.”
― Challenger Deep
But it's not going to happen today—and there is a deep, abiding comfort in that. Deep enough to carry me through till tomorrow.”
― Challenger Deep
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