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“You will be in my prayers even if you curse me for it.”
― Leigh Bardugo, A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam

“I think of the scratch of your pen as you see to your ledgers. Rank sentiment, you will say. I know. But I have always been a sentimental girl.”
― Leigh Bardugo, A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam

“We know that entire discourses sometimes take place in our heads in an instant, in the form of some sensations, without translation into human language, much less literary language.... Because, you see, many of our sensations, when translated into ordinary language, seem highly unlikely. That's why they are never brought out into the world, but everybody has them.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, A Bad Business

“I do believe in happiness. Why wouldn't I? Men pine for it, pursue it, linger over its loss. It's as real as anything else somebody will pay for.”
― Leigh Bardugo, A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam