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“Yes, I understood, God’s truth, that on the battlefield they wanted only fleeting madness. Madmen of rage, madmen of pain, furious madmen, but temporary ones. No continuous madmen. As soon as the fighting ends, we’re to file away our rage, our pain, and our fury. Pain is tolerated, we can bring our pain home on the condition that we keep it to ourselves.”
― At Night All Blood is Black
― At Night All Blood is Black
“But would it have mattered if she’d been someone else? If she’d been a social butterfly, they would have said she liked to drink away her pain. If she’d been a straight-A student, they would have said she’d been eaten alive by her perfectionism. There were always excuses for why girls died.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
“Like twin statues reaching for each other, they both fell asleep at last.”
― Our Violent Ends
― Our Violent Ends
“I want to survive this world that keeps trying to destroy me.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
“And maybe he wanted her to be the kind of girl who dressed as Queen Mab, who loved words and had stars in her blood.”
― Ninth House
― Ninth House
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