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But I couldn’t pull myself back to reality. I reached for a sun that rewarded me with burns. I reached for a god who wouldn’t answer. I fell back into dreams.
“I don’t move away, but my eyes drift off Phoebus and back onto Lore, whose dusky pink lips move over foreign words that sound almost like a chant: “Tach ahd a’feithahm thu, mo Chréach.” “What is he saying?” Sybille asks me. “I don’t know. I don’t speak Crow.”
― House of Beating Wings
― House of Beating Wings
“Why are you sorry?” I reply. “One person’s pain doesn’t negate another’s. Our heartaches are not competition, but the bridge to empathy. So that we can look at one another and know that on some level, we understand. That’s one beautiful thing about grief, I think. That sometimes, we can find someone in the world to look at from the other side of the bridge of our torments and know that we are not alone.”
― Glow
― Glow
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