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Maybe it was just that she had never seen a foreigner before. Maybe all their faces were this haunting, this vacant. Maybe they were all ghosts of what her country could have been, had they never come.
“We won’t be you and I, there is nothing in that place but shadow and hunger and bones, that world is dead.”
― Our Share of Night
― Our Share of Night
“To her, love was impure. I, on the other hand, have had so little love that it seems to me like a delicate jewel, and I’m terrified of losing it. My fear is not just that I’ll misplace it, like an earring on a night of sex or sweaty dancing, it’s that it will evaporate and vanish like alcohol. I”
― Our Share of Night
― Our Share of Night
“There are no words from this world for the entrance into the Darkness, no words for the last bite.”
― Our Share of Night
― Our Share of Night
“There is no greater disappointment than to believe oneself the chosen one and not to be chosen.”
― Our Share of Night
― Our Share of Night
“They sought me out, here I am. I don’t know how to let go of the dead.”
― Our Share of Night
― Our Share of Night
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