“There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and narrow, in which we embrace as if clamped together, I bury my face against you, you yours against me, and no one will ever see us.”
― The Castle
― The Castle
“The blade itself incites to deeds of violence”
― The Blade Itself
― The Blade Itself
“Why should the injured, the still bleeding, bear the onus of forgiveness?”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”
― Circe
― Circe
“There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot.”
― Where the Crawdads Sing
― Where the Crawdads Sing
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