“Love and loss,” he said, “are like a ship and the sea. They rise together. The more we love, the more we have to lose. But the only way to avoid loss is to avoid love. And what a sad world that would be.”
― A Conjuring of Light
― A Conjuring of Light
“Standing there on display was painful enough.
Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
― A Gathering of Shadows
Now came the truly unfortunate task of socializing.”
― A Gathering of Shadows
“If Vengeance has a mother, her name is Patience.”
― Godsgrave
― Godsgrave
“Caring was a thing with claws. It sank them in, and didn’t let go. Caring hurt more than a knife to the leg, more than a few broken ribs, more than anything that bled or broke and healed again. Caring didn’t break you clean. It was a bone that didn’t set, a cut that wouldn’t close.”
― A Conjuring of Light
― A Conjuring of Light
“I think all young women are cursed with a streak of unrelenting foolishness, and all young men are cursed with a streak of absolute stupidity.”
― Scythe
― Scythe
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