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They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
“If we women did not love you for your defects, where would you all be? Not one of you would ever be married. You would be a set of unfortunate bachelors.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Circe
― Circe
“His name on her lips had been a summons he could never deny, even when death had held him so gently, nestled beneath all those he’d felled, and waited for his last breaths.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“I have no interest in easy friends—easy people. I think I trust them less than the difficult ones, and find them far less compelling, too.”
― Tower of Dawn
― Tower of Dawn
“He does not mean that it does not hurt. He does not mean that we are not frightened. Only that: we are here. This is what it means to swim in the tide, to walk the earth and feel it touch your feet. This is what it means to be alive.”
― Circe
― Circe
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