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“My heart is yours, Hazel Sinnett," Jack said. "Forever. Beating or still.”
― Anatomy: A Love Story
― Anatomy: A Love Story
“If you’re not aware of the transcendent, if you’re not awake to the glorious mystery of life and death that you’re lucky enough to be part of—if that doesn’t fill you with joy and strike you with awe … you might as well not be alive. That’s the message of the tragedies. Participate in the wonder. For your sake (...) -live it.”
― The Maidens
― The Maidens
“You mistake love. You think it has to have a future in order to matter, but it doesn't. It's the only thing that does not need to become at all. It matters only insofar as it exists. Here. Now. Love doesn't require a future.”
― In Five Years
― In Five Years
“The universe belongs to the curious.”
― Book of Night
― Book of Night
“ You could take the job,” Balthazar said. “You want to quit the game for good? Go out in style. Come on, Charlatan, you could steal breath from a body, hate from a heart, the moon from the sky.”
“Flattery is so unlike you.”
― Book of Night
“Flattery is so unlike you.”
― Book of Night
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