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“How can I give another part of myself to someone else, when I already have so little to give?”
― A Magic Steeped in Poison
― A Magic Steeped in Poison
“I let the silence stand, let the truth sink in, but then I hear my daughter's giant heaving cries. My heart feels as if it's getting grated, pink flesh littering the ground. Is there any pain larger than the echo of your child's heartbreak?”
― Banyan Moon
― Banyan Moon
“But I wasn’t crying because I was sad. I guess I was crying because we had nowhere else to go, no choice but to go on living in this world. Crying because we had no other world to choose, and crying at everything before us, everything around us.”
― Heaven
― Heaven
“This is what love does. In the stories, love healed your wounds, fixed what was broken, allowed you to go on. But love wasn’t a spell, some kind of benediction to be whispered, a balm or a cure-all. It was a single, fragile thread, which grew stronger through connection, through shared hardship and trust.”
― Rule of Wolves
― Rule of Wolves
“Our lives slid together like tectonic plates, ever so infinitesimally, until we couldn't picture them apart.”
― Banyan Moon
― Banyan Moon
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