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"The ones who let go of us are not worth holding on to."

"I hated the spark of him in my blood. Now I carried the whole fire. The universe, it seemed, loved its cruel symmetries."

"Because stories are how we preserve truth, even when others would see it forgotten."

"Your sins to save God's kingdom."

"What was between them? An ebb and flow, curiosity and guilt, today's fatal daydream and tomorrow's scars."

"Hate could feel strangely like something else."

"You are my favorite obsession."

"Belief is sharper than any blade, sharper than even stone. It far outlives trappings of mortal men, even of fate itself."

"I'd rather have the ugly truth than a beautiful lie."

"Power craves dominion."

"I can't edit the past the way I rewrite my own lies.

"He tastes like temptation and actual air. Like bad decisions wrapped in smoke. Like sin coated in blood."

"Shut it, demon of reason. No one needs your useless commentary."

"How shall I remember thee? As a drop of eternal summer, or a blossom of tender spring? As a spark of autumn's stirring fire, or perhaps as the frost of winter's longest night? No, it shall not be as one of these, for these shall all come to pass, you and I, though parted by sea and earth, will never fade."

"There is no passion without pain."

"The Stone of Eventide, lost. The Queen's Canon, lost. And si Maevana is lost."

"Passion is art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge. Passion is wholehearted devotion; it is fevor and agony; it is temper and zeal. It knows no bounds and marks a man or woman no matter their class or status, no matter their heritage. The passion becomes the man or woman, as the man or woman becomes the passion. It is a consummation of skill and flesh, a marker of devotion, dedication, and deed."

"Mortals decay, lost boys never die."

"Weariness grows wisdom in guilty souls."

"A library is a place of refuge. A place where one can be anyone. Where knowledge and empathy collide."

"Love is the brightest color in a gray world."

"I used to fear this. An unending succession of losses. An infinite lineage of goodbyes. Every hello carries its goodbye folded inside it, like a letter you know you'll have to open someday. But hello comes first. An endless succession of life, of love. Of now."

"There is nothing more beautiful than being a witness to someone's life. To know them inside and out and be with them through everything."

"Stillness is like a bell that Death can't unhear."

"Pain is a cartographer...it draws boundaries."

"The crown needs to be fed."

"When a community is built on removing access to information - from disempowering its people - there is no one to save them when a bigger threat rises. The first civilizations to fall are the ones where no one speaks truth to power, where every voice must be part of a chorus or be silenced."

"Love me, hate me, but only look at me like my existence sets you on fire."

"Whatever vulnerability could exist in the dark can't endure in the light of day."

"Fate must be killed with force."