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“Do you want to change this world, little serpent? Then climb your cage until you are so high that no one can catch you. Break its bars and make them your weapons. Nothing is sharper. I know because I did it.”
― Carissa Broadbent, The Serpent and the Wings of Night

“How many hearts need to be stored in boxes for the pain transformed into something else? But the pain, he intuits, is the only thing that keeps him breathing.
Without the sadness, he has nothing left.”
― Agustina Bazterrica, Tender Is the Flesh

“I feel aged. I feel as if you’ve aged me with your own hands, Michael. Ripened me. Like a red fruit, at the edge of a branch, hanging at its peak. Beautiful — and just about to fall.”
― rafael nicolás, Angels Before Man

“It felt, in all the lies between them, as if this was the only true thing. It didn’t matter that he was leaving tomorrow. He felt remade with the desire to give Laurent this: to give him all he would allow, and to ask for nothing, this careful threshold something to be savored because it was all Laurent let himself have.”
― C.S. Pacat, Captive Prince