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“I felt ashamed."
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal."
"But how could you help that?"
"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?”
― Till We Have Faces
"But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?"
"No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal."
"But how could you help that?"
"Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?”
― Till We Have Faces
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
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“It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from.”
― Till We Have Faces
― Till We Have Faces
“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
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Barrett’s 2025 Year in Books
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