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“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.”

“You cling to the suffering, you make it yours, as if you think you must. As if you think that it will somehow keep you human, but it can’t, because the human part of you is dead”

“Alice never got caught up in the sermons, she always loved the songs. The way music filled the hall, bouncing off the glass and stone, liked the fact that their family sat together, and all the memories she has of those moments are nice ones, which is probably why they didn’t stick.”

“Dad’s happiness and her sister’s hurt go hand in hand, or worse, that they are angled at each other, like pistols, or blades, and all she can do is put herself between them”

“Alice gets it now. Why her sister was always breaking things.
Because rage shatters out, not in.”

“You may be her plaything. But I am her god”.

“happiness makes time move quick.”

i did start this book without knowing anything and i just realized it is about VAMPIRES AND I LOVE IT

“A name is like a dress. It might be by nature pretty or plain, but it is the person wearing it who matters most”

“it is one thing to be stormed, and another to be conquered—the difference between a brief invasion and a long-term siege.”