“It proves that time, distance, and devastation allow people enough
opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Reminders of Him
opportunity to craft villains out of people they don’t even know.”
― Reminders of Him
“She couldn’t have said no to him, she’d since realised, but she didn’t want to. And maybe that was the difference, or maybe, the difference was in thinking that there was one at all.”
― The Vanishing Half
― The Vanishing Half
“What were we before we met? We must have been standing by the shoulder of a dirt road while the city burned. We must have been disappearing, like we are now.”
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
― On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“God’s truth? How long do these intolerable moments last for God? A trillionth of a second? The very life of any creature is a quick-fading spark in fathomless darkness. That’s God’s truth.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
“[…] and evening is settling over the hundred thousand rooftops and chimneys of Paris, and all the walls around her are dissolving, the ceilings too, the whole city is disintegrating into smoke, and at last sleep falls over her like a shadow.”
― All the Light We Cannot See
― All the Light We Cannot See
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