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”after all, loneliness is like us. it has to be invited in.”
*screaming in ve schwab being the greatest prosaic of all time*

”but what good is a soul really?”
“it lives in the mind. a piece you cannot see or touch. a prize you are told to shield for a time you cannot know. easy enough to part with something so abstract when the alternative is freedom. when the promise is love.”
!!!!!!!!!!!

”why does charlotte stay?”
“that is like asking — why stay inside a house on fire? easy to say when you are standing on the street, a safe distance from the flames. harder when you are still inside, convinced you can douse the blaze before it spreads, or rushing room to room, trying to save what your love before it burns.”
so that called me out in like 63290 ways, hit like a TRUCK.

”won’t you miss it?”
“i miss the last cherries of the season. i miss chocolate melting on my tongue. i miss the way sun used to feel against my skin in the spring. i don’t miss walls and doors. others stay put, and wither in their boxes. we draw up our roots, and find new ground in which to grow.”
“how many lives have you lived?”
“enough, and not enough.”
you can live a thousand lives and yet it is never enough.

”but the woman charlotte met at last night’s ball struck her as neither sad nor lonely. only free.”
if this is not the way people describe me in a couple years than i’ve lived my life wrong.

”here is something you should know. we think ourselves immortal, but we’re not. all things get hollowed out by time, including us. for some it will take centuries, for others only a mortal life, but one way or another, eventually piece of us die. the parts that made us human. till all that’s left is hunger, and rot.” EXPLORATION OF MORAL DECLINE YES.

”hunger lives inside us all. to some it is an empty bucket. to others, a yawning pit. and yet, no matter how shallow or deep it feels, here is a truth that will either drive you mad, or bring you peace. there is no filling it. you will never be sated. it does not matter whether you drink a carafe or drain a city. the hunger will not ease.”
jaw-dropped.

”one can be alone without feeling lonely, one can feel lonely without being alone.” PREACH

okayyy i am hooked 👀