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“I don’t blame you, I am rather attractive. The tall, dark hero of your dreams, swooping in to save you with my vast intellect. You should accept my hand at once.”

“I’d rather be a lowly wretch on the streets than live in a house full of cages. Do not lecture me on propriety when it’s a virtue you so grossly lack.”

“Be careful Mr. Cresswell. Someone might think you’re beginning to care for me.”
“Then I should like to meet that person. They’d be quite astute.”

“I usually sit by the window. You may have to sit in my lap.”

“I knew I’d get you to church eventually.”

“Death was not prejudiced by mortal things such as station or gender. It came for kings and queens and prostitutes alike, often leaving the living with regrets.”

“It is easy, isn’t it, in retrospect? To spot the cracks. To see them spread. But in the moment, there is only the urge to mend each one. To smooth the lines. And keep the surface whole.”

“Death comes, and sometimes it is kind, and often it is cruel, and very rarely it is welcome. But it comes, all the same.”

“She finds herself thinking of something her father said about her mother — that on the day they were first introduced, it felt like a reunion. As if they’d known each other all their lives, and forgotten, until the moment when they met again.”

“From that moment on, she insisted, she would read only romance. As if love and horror could not go hand in hand.”