“There is a fine line between a saint and a witch, and I wonder if you are prepared to walk it.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“You’re past is stone, but your future clay. And you decide the shape of the life you’ll make.”
― Empire of the Vampire
― Empire of the Vampire
“That which dies shall still know life in death for all that decays is not forgotten and reanimated shall walk the world in a bliss of not-knowing …”
― Annihilation
― Annihilation
“Astrid was just as fierce a scholar as I was a swordsman. A girl who wielded books like blades.”
― Empire of the Vampire
― Empire of the Vampire
“Red wrote too much too fast. Her pen had a heart inside, and the nib was a wound in a vein. She stained the page with herself. She sometimes forgets what she wrote, save that it was true, and the writing hurt. But butterfly wings break when touched. Red knows her own weaknesses as well as anyone. She presses too hard, breaks what she would embrace, tears what she would touch to her teeth.”
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
― This Is How You Lose the Time War
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