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“If you pretend to feel nothing, the pretence may become true. said Jem. That would be a pity.”
― Son of the Dawn
― Son of the Dawn
“It was easier not to feel. It was safer not to love. It was possible to make oneself silent and still as stone, to wall oneself off from the world and its losses, to empty one’s heart. It was possible, but it was not human.”
― Through Blood, Through Fire
― Through Blood, Through Fire
“Loss was an inevitability of love, pain the inescapable price of joy. Everyone had to learn this someday—maybe this was what it meant to grow up.”
― Through Blood, Through Fire
― Through Blood, Through Fire
“But we all have darkness inside us. It is just a question of how much of us is light as well.”
― All the Crooked Saints
― All the Crooked Saints
“Feeling is what makes us human. Even the most difficult feelings. Perhaps especially those. Love, loss, longing—this is what it means to be truly alive.”
― The Wicked Ones
― The Wicked Ones
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