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“It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; "We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls.""There are always walls." I say.”
“Love unrequited is violent. He loves you so much that he's turned it into hate.”
“It is the face of a girl who has seen the world, who realizes that it hates her, and who hates it in return.”
“She knew that the dead hid pieces of themselves in the world. They buried organs in the living. They stuffed memories into trees and clouds and other innocuous things.”
“Her hair is full of icy wind and daylight. She is every princess, every queen, in the history book.”
“I still don't know where you came from," he says. "Some days it's like you just fell from the sky.""Some days I feel like I did." I say.”
“I think humans have always been desperate. I think it has always been about doing something awful if it might help, when the only other option is death. Maybe that's what being a parent is supposed...”
“And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.”
“Lovers are weapons, but love is a wound.”
“You can try to please everyone and risk accomplishing nothing, or go for your dreams and risk pissing a few people off.”
“There is no darkness like that of a confined space.”
“His lips are familiar. I know the shape of them, know how to make mine fit against them. His taste is familiar too. For all the illusions and colors and sweet smells... he has always tasted like sk...”
“We writers are resilient souls.”
“My father warned me that youre an interloper. He told me I should make you leave, since were no longer married and youre not my concern, he says. The thought gives me a chill. Yes, Im sure Vaughn w...”
“Pram wasn't told the story of her birth. But even as a very small girl, she felt deep in her chest that she was alive and dead at the same time.”
“Theres this anomaly that happens sometimes with twins. It occurs in the womb when the fetuses are growing too closely to each other. The stronger twin develops normally, while the weaker twin crump...”
“I watch the ashes swim around like dandelion puffs, making swirls where bodies and walls once stood.”
“This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that ...”
“I start trying to stay unconscious. The problem with this is that no amount of willpower can change the reality.”
“I think he's beginning to understand, and understanding is a horrible thing.”
