I have heard that for mortals, the feeling of falling in love is very like the feeling of fear. Your heart beats fast. Your senses are heightened. You grow light-headed, maybe even dizzy. Is that right?


“Déjà vu. Déjà su. Déjà vécu. ”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“Do you know how to live three hundred years?” she says. And when he asks how, she smiles. “The same way you live one. A second at a time.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“How much strength does it take to hurt a little girl? How much strength does it take for the girl to get over it? Which one of them do you think is stronger?”
― My Dark Vanessa
― My Dark Vanessa

“Even rocks wear away to nothing.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“What more can we want as writers than such immortality? Don't ghosts just want to be remembered?”
― Yellowface
― Yellowface
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