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In the words of my maternal aunt, Lady Eugenia Spencer, “Lapis Lazuli is a bizarre establishment, to say the least.” And she is never content to say the least, so let it be marked.
“I don't feel very brave,” I said. Without my planning it, our eyes met. He looked, for that moment, like an eighteen-year-old who had been sealed in his bedroom for so long that he'd forgotten how to properly talk to humans.
“It doesn't matter how you feel,” he said. “What matters is truth, and the truth is, you're afraid of other things you don't need to fear.”
― The Integer
“It doesn't matter how you feel,” he said. “What matters is truth, and the truth is, you're afraid of other things you don't need to fear.”
― The Integer
“The Shield Bug was happy. It had an enemy. It had a sword. Soon the sword would meet the enemy. Life was simple when you were a Shield Bug.”
― Magyk
― Magyk
“the end begins like all the beginnings before.”
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
“It’s not that I don’t want to help you, Dorothy, I do…But I’m no Jessica Fletcher. I have no idea how to solve a murder.”
― Murder by Cheesecake
― Murder by Cheesecake
“You don’t heal in a single moment. It’s day by day, a little at a time. The time it takes doesn’t mean God’s not healing you, or that you need to change tactics.”
― Martin Legacy
― Martin Legacy
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