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“Death is a jealous mistress," Lucie whispered. "She fights to keep you.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“There is joy in being with someone you love, even knowing you can never have them, even knowing they will never love you back.”
― Cassandra Clare, Chain of Iron

“Sometimes I felt that there was something physical connecting us, a long rope that stretched between Boston and Portland: when she tugged on her end, I felt it on mind. Wherever she went, wherever I went, there it would be, that shining twined string that stretched and pulled but never broke, our every movement reminding us of what we would never have again.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

“I feel most bad most often for JB, deprived of you all, left to live the
beginnings of old age by himself, with new friends, certainly, but without
most of his friends who had known him since he was a child.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life