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“...and entered with seeming earnestness into the plans of my father, although they might only serve as the decorations of my tragedy.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

“Sometimes, he wondered if that was when his parents had started resenting him…they’d named him Kiet. The way Halberrans pronounced it—flatly, with no intonation—meant “rarity” in the Renisian tongue. But, add a questioning lilt, an upward stroke above the e, and his name meant “disease”’.”
― Vanessa Le, When Shadows Burn

“...if no one knows a man can control a demon, he can do anything with it. Get away with murder, even.”
― Vanessa Le, When Shadows Burn

“..The living soul will demand life, the living soul won’t listen to mechanics, the living soul is retrograde!”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment