“They say you cannot love two people equally at once,” she said. “And perhaps for others that is so. But you and Will—you are not like two ordinary people, two people who might have been jealous of each other, or who would have imagined my love for one of them diminished by my love of the other. You merged your souls when you were both children. I could not have loved Will so much if I had not loved you as well. And I could not love you as I do if I had not loved Will as I did.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.”
― Clockwork Princess
― Clockwork Princess
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