“You hating me always meant more than anyone else in this hot and stupid universe loving me. At least I’d had your full attention.”
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“There's this idea that if you're not straight, you HAVE to tell all your family and friends immediately, like you owe it to them. But you don't. You don't have to do anything until you're ready.”
― Heartstopper: Volume Three
― Heartstopper: Volume Three
“No sound beating ends where it began. None of the beaten end up how we began.”
― The Tradition
― The Tradition
“While we were developing common sense, she studied the blade.”
― Gideon the Ninth
― Gideon the Ninth
“It had bewildered her, back at Canaan House, how the whole of her always seemed to come back to Gideon. For one brief and beautiful space of time, she had welcomed it: that microcosm of eternity between forgiveness and the slow, uncomprehending agony of the fall. Gideon rolling up her shirt sleeves. Gideon dappled in shadow, breaking promises. One idiot with a sword and an asymmetrical smile had proved to be Harrow’s end: her apocalypse swifter than the death of the Emperor and the sun with him.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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