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“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.”
― Meditations in an Emergency
“My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!”
― A Few Figs from Thistles
“For one second the woman and I seemed to become twins, or closer than twins, the same person together. Maybe we said nothing. Maybe we only lay in the band of sunlight that fell across our bed. Or maybe together we said, “There is great pain in all love, but we don’t care, it’s worth it.”
― Music of the Swamp
― Music of the Swamp
“That which yields is not always weak.”
― Kushiel's Dart
― Kushiel's Dart
“Summer in the deep South is not only a season, a climate, it's a dimension. Floating in it, one must be either proud or submerged.”
― The Untidy Pilgrim
― The Untidy Pilgrim
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