Em rolled her eyes. “Look, you can be an asshole all you like, but it’s not going to change anything,” she snapped. “You could stab me, and I’d still care. I’d stab you back! Three times over. But I’d still care.”
“I know, I’m sorry.” It was the type of apology that one person does for a collective. A pathetic assurance that everyone was sorry for the bigotry committed, even if they didn’t show it. It was the apology of the bystander,”
― The Final Strife
― The Final Strife
“Am I in love with her already? Perhaps. Or maybe I’m just confusing love with comfort, and I’m okay with that. Is there any difference between love and a safe harbor from a storm? Should there be? There are a lot of different kinds of love, and though I may not be able to tell them apart from each other, I appreciate all of them the same.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“I want to take myself apart into something else, and if I cannot do that, I want to destroy every part of it that could ever be used against me.”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“We are the same species. We're all human. It's not that people cannot understand me; it's simply that most of them don't want to”
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
― The Spirit Bares Its Teeth
“Stay here,' I said.
'Get fucked,' she said thickly. 'I absolutely did not become the eighth saint to serve the King Undying so Gideon Nav could play hero for me.'
'Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?'
'Ultimate power - and posters of my face.'
Fair.”
― Harrow the Ninth
'Get fucked,' she said thickly. 'I absolutely did not become the eighth saint to serve the King Undying so Gideon Nav could play hero for me.'
'Why did you ascend to be a Lyctor?'
'Ultimate power - and posters of my face.'
Fair.”
― Harrow the Ninth
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