Rachel
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“She…hoped. And hope was dangerous. Hope was the most vicious evil of them all, the thing that had managed to thrive in Pandora’s box among misery, and disease, and sadness—and what could endure alongside others with such teeth if it didn’t have ghastly claws of its own?”
― These Violent Delights
― These Violent Delights
“The combined smell of coffee and used books felt like the intersection of all things good and necessary.”
― Horrid
― Horrid
“Failure does not predict future failure. It is simply a delay, not defeat. Failure is the seed from which success springs.”
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“And for a moment he was surprised at what courage looked like. It wasn't big and grand and full of purpose. It was haphazard and chaotic and involved a lot of sweating.”
― Rumblestar
― Rumblestar
“He was terribly afraid that happiness might be a habit, or a quality knitted into the temperament, or it might be something you learn when you're a child, a kind of language harder than Latin or Greek, that you should have a grasp on by the time you're seven. What if you haven't got that grasp? What if you're in some way happiness-stupid, happiness-blind?”
― A Place of Greater Safety
― A Place of Greater Safety
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