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“Now and then, the passage of time seems acutely apparent. Physical pain always sharpens the awareness.”
― 흰
― 흰
“This witch had been crafted from the darkness between the stars.
“I think not, Prince,” she said in her midnight voice. She sniffed again, her nose crinkling slightly. “But would you bleed red, or black?”
“I’ll bleed whatever color you tell me to.”
― Queen of Shadows
“I think not, Prince,” she said in her midnight voice. She sniffed again, her nose crinkling slightly. “But would you bleed red, or black?”
“I’ll bleed whatever color you tell me to.”
― Queen of Shadows
“You make me want to live, Rowan. Not survive; not exist; Live.”
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“I took his name, Erawan spat, writhing as the words flowed from his tongue under Damaris's power. I wiped it away from existence. Yet he only remembered it once. Only once. The first time He behelded you.
Tears slid down Dorian's face at the unbearable truth.”
― Kingdom of Ash
Tears slid down Dorian's face at the unbearable truth.”
― Kingdom of Ash
“Your eyes
I saw differently when I looked with your eyes. I walked differently when I walked with your body. I wanted to show you clean things. Before brutality, sadness, despair, filth, pain, clean things that were only for you, clean things above all. But it didn’t come off as I intended. Again and again I peered into your eyes, as though searching for form in a deep, black mirror.
If only we’d been living in a city back then, I heard my mother say several times during my childhood.
If only an ambulance could have taken me to hospital.
If only they’d put her in an incubator, that tiny rice cake of a baby. They were a new thing then, incubators.
If only you hadn’t stopped breathing. And had therefore been granted all this life in my stead, I who would then never have been born. If it had been granted to you to go firmly forwards, with your own eyes and your own body, your back to the dark mirror.”
― The White Book
I saw differently when I looked with your eyes. I walked differently when I walked with your body. I wanted to show you clean things. Before brutality, sadness, despair, filth, pain, clean things that were only for you, clean things above all. But it didn’t come off as I intended. Again and again I peered into your eyes, as though searching for form in a deep, black mirror.
If only we’d been living in a city back then, I heard my mother say several times during my childhood.
If only an ambulance could have taken me to hospital.
If only they’d put her in an incubator, that tiny rice cake of a baby. They were a new thing then, incubators.
If only you hadn’t stopped breathing. And had therefore been granted all this life in my stead, I who would then never have been born. If it had been granted to you to go firmly forwards, with your own eyes and your own body, your back to the dark mirror.”
― The White Book
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