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The Drift
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Or was that what we always were? Lumps of meat given life by a flick of the sorcerer’s wand. Perhaps death didn’t take anything away. Perhaps it merely restored us to our natural state.
“You have not seen death, my lord. You have only seen the mask we put on it.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“I do not sleep because I am not only afraid of the monsters at my door, but also of the monsters my own mind can conjure. The ones that live within.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“To be kin to a dragon, you must not only have a soul of water. You must have the blood of the sea, and the sea is not always pure. It is not any one thing. There is darkness in it, and danger, and cruelty. It can raze great cities with its rage. Its depths are unknowable; they do not see the touch of the sun. To be a Miduchi is not to be pure, Tané. It is to be the living sea. That is why I chose you. You have a dragon’s heart.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“But when the heart grows too full, it overflows. And mine, inevitably, overflows on to a page.”
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
― The Priory of the Orange Tree
“She knew the years of isolation had altered her behavior until she was different from others, but it wasn't her fault she'd been alone. Most of what she knew, she'd learned from the wild. Nature had nurtured, tutored, and protected her when no one else would.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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