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I take in a deep breath and look out over the crumbling, run-down buildings cast in shadows by the flickering lampposts dotting the street. There’s not much electricity here in the slums, but the king generously spared us a few lampposts.
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“I think of you like a sister," he said. "Like a brilliant, violent, occasionally terrifying sister that I would follow to the ends of earth, in part because I respected her so much and in part because I feared what she would do to me of I refused. "
She nodded. "I would do awful things.”
― And I Darken
She nodded. "I would do awful things.”
― And I Darken
“What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.”
― Agnes Grey
― Agnes Grey
“Hell is the absence of the people you long for.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.”
― Rose in Bloom
― Rose in Bloom
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