Everyone asks what the meaning of life is, but no one asks about the meaning of death.
“I will love you until the sun dies. And when it does, I will love you in the darkness.”
― Iron Gold
― Iron Gold
“Sleep is cousin to death, Vasya. And both are mine.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“Love him? What does that matter? I’m capable of imagining I love him. I think I could love anyone who loves me. Do you understand?”
― Cockroaches
― Cockroaches
“I would walk into the jaws of hell itself, if it were a path of my own choosing. I would rather die tomorrow in the forest than live a hundred years of the life appointed me.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
“Solovey will take me to the ends of the earth if I ask it. I am going into the world, Alyosha. I will be no one's bride, neither of man nor of God. I am going to Kiev and Sarai and Tsargrad, and I will look upon the sun on the sea.”
― The Bear and the Nightingale
― The Bear and the Nightingale
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