“I am torn and I am mended - I want everything and need nothing - I love you and am content without you.
Even so, come quickly!”
― The Essex Serpent
Even so, come quickly!”
― The Essex Serpent
“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Circe
― Circe
“The Hartliebs had no time for the snow. Outside their window, San Giorgio Maggiore seemed to be floating on the lagoon as if it had just surfaced there. The view was so beautiful that Victor felt his heart ache. Esther and her husband, however, stood side by side with their backs to the window.”
― The Thief Lord
― The Thief Lord
“All the stars were falling: Aslan had called them home.”
― The Last Battle
― The Last Battle
“Essex has her bride’s gown on: there’s cow parsley frothing by the road and daisies on the common, and the hawthorn’s dressed in white; wheat and barley fatten in the fields, and bindweed decks the hedges.”
― The Essex Serpent
― The Essex Serpent
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