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“I swear, you would play the coquette with a well-upholstered sofa."
"First, I would not. And second, how handsome is this sofa?”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
"First, I would not. And second, how handsome is this sofa?”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“Grief changes shape, but it never ends.”
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“We are not broken things, neither of us. We are cracked pottery mended with laquer and flakes of gold, whole as we are, complete unto each other. Complete and worthy and so very loved.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“I have become a veritable scholar in seemingly innocent ploys to get his skin against mine.”
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
― The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue
“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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