“There is something beautiful about autumn that makes things more beautiful. Out of all the seasons, it is the most honest about time. Summer and spring blind you to its passing with their colorful displays. Winter paints over everything in white. But autumn is not shy about things coming to an end. It welcomes it, waving leafy flags of red, yellow, and gold. It celebrates its sadness.” Hana Ishikawa”
― Water Moon
― Water Moon
“We hunt the flame, the light in the darkness, the good this world deserves.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“You are bound to me in matrimony. If you break it and descend into another plane of existence, I will chase after you and snatch you back.”
― Foul Heart Huntsman
― Foul Heart Huntsman
“What is a life? A series of yeses and noes, photographs you shove in a drawer somewhere, loves you think will save you but that cannot. Continuing to move, enduring, not stopping even when there is pain. That's all life is, he wants to tell her. It's continuing.”
― Salt Houses
― Salt Houses
“The sacrifices made in this war would have to be enough. Malini was monstrous enough to seize a throne and murder a brother. She was monstrous enough to continue the glorious, bloody cruelty of empire. She had made herself so.
She would choose now to be monstrous enough to let an enemy live, for the sake of keeping what was hers. She would choose love over goodness.
Let future generations face the yaksa once more. Let the rot continue. Only, let me have her.”
― The Lotus Empire
She would choose now to be monstrous enough to let an enemy live, for the sake of keeping what was hers. She would choose love over goodness.
Let future generations face the yaksa once more. Let the rot continue. Only, let me have her.”
― The Lotus Empire
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