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“Find another reason to go on,” I said. “It doesn’t have to be a good one, or a noble one. It just has to be a reason.”
I knew mine: There was a hunger inside me, and there always had been. That hunger was stronger than pain, stronger than horror. It gnawed even after everything else inside me had given up. It was not hope; it did not soar; it slithered, clawed, and dragged, and it would not let me stop.
And when I finally named it, I found it was something very simple: the desire to live.”
― Carve the Mark
I knew mine: There was a hunger inside me, and there always had been. That hunger was stronger than pain, stronger than horror. It gnawed even after everything else inside me had given up. It was not hope; it did not soar; it slithered, clawed, and dragged, and it would not let me stop.
And when I finally named it, I found it was something very simple: the desire to live.”
― Carve the Mark
“Clover City is the kind of place you leave. It's love that either sucks you in or pushes you away. There are only a few who really make it out and stay out, while the rest of us drink, procreate, and go to church, and that seems enough to keep us afloat.”
― Dumplin'
― Dumplin'
“When a man's fate is not his own, when he may die at the behest of a man born luckier or wealthier, when he sweats all his life for scraps from another mans table, then he is in peril." Daichi's eyes glittered in the half light. "But when he accepts it in his heart, when he ceases to struggle against that fundamental injustice, then he is a slave.”
― Stormdancer
― Stormdancer
“I think my first crush-the way I was aware of every eyelash, every freckle running up and down his arms, the way he'd always brush back his shaggy hair before speaking. Every detail about him memorized in innocent, yet obsessive, infatuation.”
― Girl Out of Water
― Girl Out of Water
“Alexandre's smile vanished once more. "What have I told you about profanity?"
The girl sighed, though she couldn't help but smile as the pedantic change of tone. "A true lady never curses," she parroted back at him.
"And do we know why?"
Adrienne blinked. He'd never gotten into it, and she'd assumed it was another of the endlessly labyrithine laws of etiquette. "Umm, because it's not ladylike?" she ventured.
"No. Because a true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at the very least the restraint, to express herself without resorting to such base vocabulary.”
― Thief's Covenant
The girl sighed, though she couldn't help but smile as the pedantic change of tone. "A true lady never curses," she parroted back at him.
"And do we know why?"
Adrienne blinked. He'd never gotten into it, and she'd assumed it was another of the endlessly labyrithine laws of etiquette. "Umm, because it's not ladylike?" she ventured.
"No. Because a true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at the very least the restraint, to express herself without resorting to such base vocabulary.”
― Thief's Covenant
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