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“He saw it in her eyes. The anguish, the frustration. The terrible nothing that clawed inside and sought to smother her. She knew. It was there, inside. She had been broken.

Then she smiled. Oh, storms. She smiled anyway.

It was the single most beautiful thing he’d seen in his entire life.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”
― Sylvia Plath, Letters Home

“Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”
― Donna Tartt, The Secret History