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Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
“If you want to help her, you need to help yourself first. No one serves their friends by grinding themselves into dust on the altar of compassion.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“It's a rare person to face who they are and not run from it - not be broken by it.”
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
― A Court of Wings and Ruin
“For it was easy to be good and kind in times of plenty. The trying times were the moments that defined a man.”
― The Rose & the Dagger
― The Rose & the Dagger
“Let us speak, for a moment, on the matter of sisters. They can be enemies to fight or companions to lean upon: they can, at times, be strangers. They are not required to be friends, or to have involvement in one another's lives, or to be anything more than strangers united by the circumstances of their birth. Still, there is a magic in the word "sister," a magic which speaks of shared roots and hence shared branches, of a certain ease that is always to be pursued, if not always to be found.”
― In an Absent Dream
― In an Absent Dream
“Even if he likes me, I’m not sure he’d like me naked. I hate that I’m even thinking that. I hate hating my body. Actually, I don’t even hate my body. I just worry everyone else might. Because chubby girls don’t get boyfriends, and they definitely don’t have sex. Not in movies—not really—unless it’s supposed to be a joke. And I don’t want to be a joke.”
― The Upside of Unrequited
― The Upside of Unrequited
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