showed him his mother. And his brother. And his father. Everything he had left. What he’d failed. What he’d hated and what he’d become. The lines between the last two had blurred.
“Showing you care about something or someone makes you vulnerable, because it gives the world another way to hurt you. But there comes a time when you have to decide if feeling empty is really any better than the risk of being broken.”
― Silver in the Bone
― Silver in the Bone
“Inside, inside I had become like that distant sea, relentlessly churning, tossed about by squalls that tore away any sense of where the surface might be.”
― A Court of Mist and Fury
― A Court of Mist and Fury
“All my life, I’ve let other voices creep in, and they’ve drowned out my own.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I sit on the edge of the bed, feeling the loneliness swell, not knowing whether it's pressing against me from the outside or growing from within. either way, it's inescapable, my oldest companion.”
― Happy Place
― Happy Place
“I’ve lived through some injustices in the last couple of centuries. Seen some fucking travesties. But one of the biggest, Oraya, is that anyone taught you that you should become anything other than exactly what you are.”
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
― The Serpent and the Wings of Night
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