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The air is thick with stuffy perfume and the smell of flowers. It’s perplexing to me that weddings also smell like funerals.
“There are some Questions, some battles, some Hiccups that are worth losing a world for. And perhaps even when all ends in disaster, you cannot do the wrong thing, if you do it out of love.”
― How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
― How to Fight a Dragon’s Fury
“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 end begins like all the beginnings before.”
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
― Twisted Grimms: Fairy Tales Retold
“None of us here deserved God’s saving grace either, but we accepted it anyway because we needed it,” he continued. “Life isn’t about deserving things. It’s about doing the best we can with what we have.”
― Martin Legacy
― Martin Legacy
“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
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