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“If I cannot be better than them, I will become so much worse.”
― The Cruel Prince
― The Cruel Prince
“But we are still mythical. We are still permanently trapped somewhere between the heroic and the pitiful. We are still godly; that’s what makes us so monstrous. But it feels like we’ve forgotten we’re much more than the sum of all the things that belong to us.”
― Brand New Ancients: A Poem
― Brand New Ancients: A Poem
“On old maps, cartographers would draw strange beasts around the margins and write phrases such as "Here be dragons." That's where monsters exist: in the unmapped spaces, in the places where we haven't filled in all the gaps...”
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“But she hadn't been able to take root. She'd remembered the wrong things, and forgotten too much. She'd remembered how to kill and how to hate, and she'd forgotten how to grow.”
― Uprooted
― Uprooted
“My heart is a cathedral. Widows, ghosts and lovers sit and sing in the dark, arched marrow of me.”
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