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Wife died 8 months ago, and he already moved on? Rat city bro

“…I would sooner get a splinter than take a true man out of this wretched world."
"A splinter? You'd go so far?" he asks dryly.

“Everything that’s been done to us we carry forever. Most of us do our damnedest to hold on to the good and forget the rest. But somewhere in the vault of our hearts, in a place our brains can’t or won’t touch, the worst is stored, and the only sure key to it is in our dreams.”

“the owl made a noise with very little resemblance in it to the noise conventionally assigned to the owl by men-poets. But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them.”

"To the eye it is fair enough, here; but seen in its integrity, under the sky, and by the daylight, it is a crumbling tower of waste, mismanagement, extortion, debt, mortgage, oppression, hunger, nakedness, and suffering."

"Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky."
That might not be so long as the Marquis supposed… As for the roof he vaunted, he might have found that shutting out the sky in a new way—to wit… from the eyes of the bodies into which its lead was fired… of a hundred thousand muskets.

“In this respect the House was much on a par with the Country; which did very often disinherit its sons for suggesting improvements in laws and customs that had long been highly objectionable, but were only the more respectable.”

“What now? Are you a subject for the mad hospital? … Why do you write in the public streets? Is there—tell me thou—is there no other place to write such words in?”

“The beach was a desert of heaps of sea and stones tumbling wildly about, and the sea did what it liked, and what it liked was destruction.”

Me when I cock my blunderbuss

Ladies, just because a man respects a boundary ONE time does not mean he’s the one unforch. Lily has got to be the dumbest character

What are we doing

I don’t wanna talk about it

“Sometimes a man and a woman reach a crossroads and linger there, reluctant to take either way, knowing the wrong choice will mean the end... and knowing there's so much worth saving.”

“There’s nothing you can do for her,” he said.
That was probably true. What could one powerless woman offer another? “I can make sure she doesn’t die alone.”

Leigh Bardugo was really like, “what if the darkling didn’t suck” and wrote a book

Damn

“There was nothing more dangerous than a woman with a pen in her hand.”

“it wasn’t beauty life required but will.”

“You’re not wise enough for beauty… you’d spend it like coin.”

“There are worse things for a woman than being alone.”

He is so cooked