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“As a child, I read stories of demons who hid their tails and came to the homes of honest housewives, offering dangerous bargains and terrible gifts. I never believed them until tonight.”
― Leigh Bardugo, A Darker Shore: Letters from Ketterdam

“They say that people standing on a height are drawn downwards, as it were, of their own accord, to the abyss. I think that a lot of suicides and murders have been committed merely because the revolver was already in hand. There's an abyss here as well, there's a forty-five-degree slope down which you can't help but slide and something relentlessly challenges you to pull the trigger.”
― Dostoevsky

“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

“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