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Life-giving, life-stealing, beautiful, a challenge to handle, worth learning to ride, full of fresh wonders every day—if he’d had a woman like the ocean in his bed, he’d still be there.
“Now that my ladder’s gone, I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag and bone shop of the heart,” I recite from Yeats’s The Circus Animals’ Desertion.”
― River Woman, River Demon
― River Woman, River Demon
“Because love, at its root, is hope. Hope for tomorrow. Hope for what could be. Hope that the someone you’ve entrusted your everything to will cradle and protect it. And hope? That shit is harder to kill than a dragon.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
“There is nothing wrong with being kissed on the cheek by a sweet round woman in a café after you have nearly died.”
― Virgil Wander
― Virgil Wander
“I’d like to see if an excess of irony can actually kill a man.”
― King of Scars
― King of Scars
“About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant.”
― The Silent Patient
― The Silent Patient
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