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Anessa
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“It was impossible, of course. But when did that ever stop any dreamer from dreaming.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“you will think
your parents are
shatterproof
until one day
you find out
they aren't.
- what it really means to lose your innocence”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
your parents are
shatterproof
until one day
you find out
they aren't.
- what it really means to lose your innocence”
― The Princess Saves Herself in This One
“Are you going to be sick?”
I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting her necklace around her fingers. I don’t answer, because I don’t believe a prisoner owes his captors any sort of report on his health. That, and if I’m going to be sick, I’d prefer to do it all over her, and I’d prefer it to be a stealth attack.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
I raise my head. The duke is gone, but Helena is on the window seat, twisting her necklace around her fingers. I don’t answer, because I don’t believe a prisoner owes his captors any sort of report on his health. That, and if I’m going to be sick, I’d prefer to do it all over her, and I’d prefer it to be a stealth attack.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“I turned my nightmares into fireflies and caught them in a jar.”
― Strange the Dreamer
― Strange the Dreamer
“In the east," she says after a time, her gaze still downcast, "there is a tradition known as kintsukuroi. It is the practice of mending broken ceramic pottery using lacquer dusted with gold and silver and other precious metals. It is meant to symbolize that things can be more beautiful for having been broken."
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
"Why are you telling me this?" I ask.
At last she looks at me. Her irises are polished obsidian in the moonlight. "Because I want you to know," she says, "that there is life after survival.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
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