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Queen of Roses (Blood of a Fae, #1)

by Briar Boleyn (Goodreads Author)

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Hales’s Quotes

“so I wait for you like a lonely house
till you will see me again and live in me.
Till then my windows ache.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

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“When you play a game of thrones you win or you die.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

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“In this part of the story I am the one who
dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you,
because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: devotion, love

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“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.”
― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets

tags: love, passion, poetry, sonnet-xi

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“I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade away so that only names and dates remain.”
― Kate Morton, The House at Riverton

tags: dates, history, life, names, people, spirits, time

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