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“Alas! they had been friends in youth;
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”
― Christabel
But whispering tongues can poison truth;
And constancy lives in realms above;
And life is thorny; and youth is vain;
And to be wroth with one we love
Doth work like madness in the brain.”
― Christabel
“If your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours.”
― Carmilla
― Carmilla
“Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us.
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
These, our bodies, possessed by light.
Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
― Crush
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
― Emma
― Emma
“It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.”
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
― First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety
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