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“Off to scout, she said. Off to scavenge, Jack reckoned. Because something burned in her nature that even being left behind by a fleeing army couldn’t douse.”
― House of Open Wounds
― House of Open Wounds
“And he was doing his best to sound horrified but also, you had to interrupt Banders because she always interrupted you. She respected you for it.”
― House of Open Wounds
― House of Open Wounds
“The past is not just that which happened to you. Sometimes it is that which you just imagined.”
― Time Shelter
― Time Shelter
“Anyone who has wasted hours surfing the Internet knows that technology can encourage bad habits.”
― Exhalation
― Exhalation
“Are you going to start with the poetry of it?” Ghastron asked softly. “How her hooks are in your soul, so that each sweet breath is naught but wind unless some part of her can feel as you now feel. How every beat of your labouring heart speaks her name, and yet you know it isn’t even her name. That, sans the bounds of contract and the conjurer’s circle, does the thing that fills your life even exist? Or is the one you love solely within your mind, a puppet show played for your own amusement, and in which you strive, ever doubting, to believe?”
― House of Open Wounds
― House of Open Wounds
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