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“Regret is like air: can’t be alive without it.” He seems to be lost in a memory for a second before coming back. “But I’ll tell you what—regret’s made out of lead. It’ll drag you under if you let it.” He glances down at the name tattooed
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“Good luck in wherever you’re going. And don’t forget that coins are everywhere, and until you pick them up you can only see one side.”
― The First City
― The First City
“It also struck him that they were nearly as prehistoric as the people who’d once lived on the moors ten thousand years gone. He and the boy were less skilled, yet still hunter-gatherers, roaming from cupboard to cupboard, wearing the clothes of others and blinking in fearful incomprehension at a sky that only pitiless, displeased gods could transform thus and make bleed.”
― All the Fiends of Hell
― All the Fiends of Hell
“it was only death, the old debt paid on all those years spent living.”
― Melmoth
― Melmoth
“Regret is like air: can’t be alive without it.” He seems to be lost in a memory for a second before coming back. “But I’ll tell you what—regret’s made out of lead. It’ll drag you under if you let it.” He glances down at the name tattooed on his arm and looks away. “If I could go back to do some things over, I would in a heartbeat. But that ain’t reality. It ain’t life. You got to forgive yourself before you can move on. When you forgive yourself the regret gets lighter and lighter and you manage to keep going.”
― The Final Trade
― The Final Trade
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