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We were not the same, my half sisters and I. Life had sheltered them, like pearls kept in a velvet pouch. And I—I was not made of pearls. I was made of salt.
“Because no throne is held easily, or for long; because a nation is a story we tell about ourselves, and stories change, if you let them. Because where there is power, someone will oppose it.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“Most of all they learned one another, as few people ever have or will. In the churn and tumult of their lives—where summer did not always follow spring, where even their own names were tricksome and shifting—they were to one another what fixed stars are to sailors: the only way through the dark.”
― The Everlasting
― The Everlasting
“The real benefit of travel is that you encounter the comforting ordinariness of everyone else.”
― Dream Count
― Dream Count
“Frankie wishes she could pull over and ask these people if it helps to think that anything is possible, or if the more important lesson is that struggle is a part of everyone's life, and there is no such thing as perfection. What has more impact, the value of a dream or the cost of a lie?”
― Land of Dreams
― Land of Dreams
“And it would be you who paid it, who would never stop paying it. Because you loved me, and in loving me, you would never be free.
Dizzily, sickly, in a long string of metaphors, I saw everything we could make of love: chains, debts, cages, circles.”
― The Everlasting
Dizzily, sickly, in a long string of metaphors, I saw everything we could make of love: chains, debts, cages, circles.”
― The Everlasting
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