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“Lucy, take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.”
― Villette
― Villette
“For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
“Why haven’t you asked me how I do my tricks?” Celia asks, once they have reached the point where she is certain he is not simply being polite about the matter.
“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― The Night Circus
“Because I do not wish to know,” he says. “I prefer to remain unenlightened, to better appreciate the dark.”
― The Night Circus
“Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You can only try to match up and never turn into a wolf while he's a rabbit, or a mouse while he's still busy being an owl, a brawny black bull while he's a little blue crab scuttling for shelter. It's harder than it sounds.”
― The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
― The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two
“The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only when I cannot bear how everyone looks at me down here that I make myself forget it. Shadows are the other side of yourself. I had longings to be good, even then. I was just stronger than my wanting. I’m stronger than anything, really, when I want to be.” The Marquess’s hair turned white as the snow. “Do you know, we’re right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can’t get back to. I don’t even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
― The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
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