“Suma's eyes are still closed, and I can't tell if she's trying to forget, or to remember. Maybe stories are there to help us do both. I know stories can't always have happy endings. But if there are chances for us to do better, we have to say out loud the parts that hurt the most.”
― The Last Cuentista
― The Last Cuentista
“Why did we suffer to keep secrets? Merely to protect ourselves, or to protect others?”
― The Lost Apothecary
― The Lost Apothecary
“An ordinary archer practices until he gets it right. A ranger practices until he never gets it wrong.”
― The Kings of Clonmel
― The Kings of Clonmel
“Books are time travel. True readers all know this. But books don’t just take you back to the time in which they were written; they can take you back to different versions of yourself.”
― Eight Perfect Murders
― Eight Perfect Murders
“It's okay to change," I interrupted, "but it's not okay to hide, to bury parts of ourselves.”
― The Lost Apothecary
― The Lost Apothecary
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