“I cannot be too young or too old, too beautiful or too ugly. I cannot weep or rage. I cannot refuse a man nor fuck him nor marry him—a queen is only powerful if there are no kings or princes nearby.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“To do nothing in the face of another's misfortune is to be no better than those who might have caused it to begin with, and the measure of the best of us is that we can correctly measure our own inconvenience against the weight of someone else's pain.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“Ladies, get you a man who can handle a portal to hell without freaking out.”
― The Hollow Places
― The Hollow Places
“this was the human condition: often to be lost, confused, or anxious, but finally to comprehend that, at crucial instances, we will find ourselves lost precisely where we were meant to be; that there is little of use to be learned from the familiar—one may gain comfort from it, but not knowledge—only from what is strange and new; and that everything worth experiencing or embracing is, because unknown, first touched by fear.”
― The Land of Lost Things
― The Land of Lost Things
“A throne was a kind of weapon by which the world was cut into two halves: the dead and the kneeling.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
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