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“He doesn’t move or speak, but he doesn’t need to. I know his desires by the pace of his breath and the tilt of his shoulders, by the shape of his jaw and the heat of his gaze. I know him, and in knowing him I love him, and in loving him I cannot do as he wishes.”
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
“I would rather love a coward than mourn a legend.”
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
“And this we do for pleasure,’ Greta McCraw muttered from the shadows, ‘so that we may shortly be at the mercy of venomous snakes and poisonous ants . . . how foolish can human creatures be!”
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
― Picnic at Hanging Rock
“This time, when I push my face into the pool, when my water fills my mouth and floods my lungs, I am smiling. They will never sing my name.”
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
― The Six Deaths of the Saint
“I love you and I love you and I love you, on battlefields, in shadows, in fading ink, on cold ice splashed with the blood of seals. In the rings of trees. In the wreckage of a planet crumbling to space. In bubbling water. In bee stings and dragonfly wings, in stars. In the deapths of lonely woods where I wandered in my youth, staring up - and even then you watched me. You slid back through my life, and I have known you since before I knew you.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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