Lilli

“I believe there is a considerable range in the bang of most guns.”
― Gail Carriger, Changeless

“That’s what death did, it treated you like a child, like everything you had ever thought and done and cared about was just a child’s game, to be crumpled up and thrown away when it was over. It didn’t matter. Death didn’t respect you. Death thought you were bullshit, and it wanted to make sure you knew it.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.”
― Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke & Bone

“You have to love dancing to stick to it. It gives you nothing back, no manuscripts to store away, no paintings to show on walls and maybe hang in museums, no poems to be printed and sold, nothing but that single fleeting moment when you feel alive.
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― Merce Cunningham