“We are all alone in the world,” he said, and his words were the clouds when they muffle the moon at night, they resembled the earth gone bitter, choking the sprout in its cradle.”
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
“The world might indeed be a cursed circle; the snake swallowed its tail and there could be no end, only an eternal ruination and endless devouring.”
― Mexican Gothic
― Mexican Gothic
“...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness.”
― A Cosmology of Monsters
― A Cosmology of Monsters
“...there's no such thing as a happy ending. The songs, books, and movies with "happy endings" al stop at teh moment of triumph....There are, however, good stopping places.”
― A Cosmology of Monsters
― A Cosmology of Monsters
“He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.”
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
― Gods of Jade and Shadow
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