“I felt like a Victorian gentleman who had just seen their very first dainty ankle with the way my pulse sped up.”
― Spell Bound
― Spell Bound
“When frustrated tears finally broke over his lashes, he attempted to squeeze them away, but Eridanys noticed. He sighed, using his thumbs to wipe them from Alba’s cheeks before they could drip all the way down.
“There’s enough salt in the sea,” he whispered. “Don’t add to it with tears, Albatross.”
― A Bone in His Teeth
“There’s enough salt in the sea,” he whispered. “Don’t add to it with tears, Albatross.”
― A Bone in His Teeth
“I think people make themselves beautiful. I think everything on our outside is a line sketch, and whatever’s on the inside blows those lines into three dimensions.”
― The Last Sun
― The Last Sun
“IN LEO’S ROOM, I FIND the small stuffed giraffe, Max, on the floor beside the bed. I carry him down the hall, feeling the soft synthetic fur, the thick plush: all the pain and grief and tragedy accreted on this thing of string and cloth and stuffing, but how much Leo loves it, needs it, is soothed by it. That, I suppose, is how the brave do it, they just put it all together, the good and the bad, and they hold it tight to themselves, and walk on with it.”
― The God of Endings
― The God of Endings
“To a man genuinely and deeply in love, there is no greater sorrow in the world than a broken heart. Love hurts. Without the love, where could the hurt come from?”
― Peach Blossom Debt
― Peach Blossom Debt
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