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“Beauty can be like that. Beauty cannot be trusted. Beauty can slip through your fingers like water and burn on your tongue like poison. Beauty can be the shining wall that keeps you from all you love.”
― Bitter of Tongue
― Bitter of Tongue
“People could bear so much, but Simon did not know how much of the original you was left when the world had twisted you into a whole different shape.”
― Bitter of Tongue
― Bitter of Tongue
“The Smile won Matthew extra time before bed, extra Christmas pudding, extra anything he wanted. Adults were helpless to resist The Smile.
Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong.”
― Nothing but Shadows
Matthew gave his all to this particular smile. Butter melted. Birds sang. People slipped about dazed amid the butter and birdsong.”
― Nothing but Shadows
“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”
― Pale Kings and Princes
― Pale Kings and Princes
“It was nice, Simon thought, in the midst of all the terrible things that could happen and sometimes did happen, there was always this. There was a lot of love.”
― The Fiery Trial
― The Fiery Trial
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