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“Ann?” my dad says. “Hmmm?” “Can I tell you something?” Her hand stops combing the ringlets as she tenses, knowing by the tightness of my dad’s voice that his next words will likely break the spell. My dad’s jaw is locked forward and his
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“Yrene said quietly, “The darkness belongs to you. To shape as you will. To give it power or render it harmless.” “Was it ever the Valg’s to begin with?” His words echoed into nothing. “Yes. But it is yours to keep now. This place, this final kernel of it.” It would remain in him, a scar and a reminder. “Will it grow again?” “Only if you let it. Only if you do not fill it with better things. Only if you do not forgive.” He knew she didn’t just mean others. “But if you are kind to yourself, if you—if you love yourself …” Yrene’s mouth trembled. “If you love yourself as much as I love you …”
― Tower of Dawn
― Tower of Dawn
“Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.”
― Liberator
― Liberator
“Oh Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!”
― The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
― The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia, #1)
“All get what they want; they do not always like it.”
― The Magician's Nephew
― The Magician's Nephew
“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”
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