Deep End
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Where do these people get their bottomless reservoirs of confidence? From a pot at the end of a rainbow?
“Our ancestors were cursed millennia ago. As a result, we ended up with these,” he said, gesturing to his canines. “We used them to drink your kind dry. We drained you by the million before the blood curse was lifted. This was long before our time, of course, but the Fae line still bears the marks of its past. We might not need blood to maintain our immortality anymore, but by the gods, do we still have the teeth for it. Our dirty little secret. Our awful, horrible shame—”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
“If I have enough hope for him, then I’ve enough for you, too.”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
“I realized that’s what I was afraid was going to happen on the nineteenth. My divorce would be final, my rage would finally burn out, and I’d be left with what was left of me. And that wasn’t much.”
― Yours Truly
― Yours Truly
“Where do these people get their bottomless reservoirs of confidence? From a pot at the end of a rainbow?”
― Deep End
― Deep End
“You know I fought. I did, I fought the same way you want to fight now. I gave everything I had, sacrificed every last thing I held dear, but this city is a beast that feeds on misery, and pain, and death, and it’s never full. We can throw ourselves down its throat until there’s none of us left, and we won’t have made the slightest lick of difference, Saeris. The people will suffer. The people will die.”
― Quicksilver
― Quicksilver
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