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“No mourners, no funerals. Another way of saying good luck. But it was something more. A dark wink to the fact that there would be no expensive burials for people like them, no marble markers to remember their names, no wreaths of myrtle and rose.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“And that was what destroyed you in the end: the longing for something you could never have.”
― Crooked Kingdom
― Crooked Kingdom
“When someone in your life is sick, or could get seriously sicker, you’re always waiting for the other shoe to drop. Even when things are doing well, when it seems like everything is fine, some part of you is anticipating the worst”
― You Should See Me in a Crown
― You Should See Me in a Crown
“Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”
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“He needed to tell her...what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
― Six of Crows
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