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“A man from the wood. A stranger from afar. He will break the curse by a hundred kisses...”
“You're special, Deirdre, and don't ever think otherwise.”
“Cursed, I was cursed, and my mother said shed given up magic for good, said it was a terrible thing, but she wasnt above using it to keep me at her side, and shes a hypocrite, a liar, a fraud and p...”
“I stretched out on the carpet, eyes glazed over, my heart whirring with frustration and fear, and as my mothers curse slowly, firmly, pushed my eyelids closed, my body went still. But on the inside...”
“Any fool would not be braveWho takes no heed of this verseNo heroic deed or action saveAny man from Finndragons curse”
“Bitter and Frail, young and weak. Smiles are useless, talk is cheap, Give thou venom, fangs like slime, Ugly freak for all of time. An empty gift just from me, Give it now, so mote it be!”
“...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.”
“But Charlie could imagine, because he was a Beta Male, and imagination was his curse....”
“When a man cannot fight he would curse. The gods like to feel needed.”
“Some think intuition is a gift, but it can be a curse as well--a voice calling to us from places that are better left unexplored...an echo of memories that will never die, no matter how hard we try...”
“Some men are so willing to know their future,but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.”
“Humans are curious creatures. What we cannot see, our logical minds will try to deny.”
“In July I thinkabout the idea of being cursed(because its not strange to me;when I look in mirrors Imnot there, blank walls gleamingwith bloody condensation,and my shadow behind memocking me with h...”
“What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, everything jumbled against everything else in just a few chaotic moments. Fingers in hair. Hands cupping ne...”
“She held my face in her hands as if I was the treasure.”
“And I would tell him, as we rise into the air, The curse is not that we cannot choose our Fates.The curse, the curse we all live under, is that we can.”
“Let me be cursed, let me be base and vile, but let me also kiss the hem of that garment in which my God is clothed; let me be following the devil at the same time, but still I am also your son, Lor...”
“May your criminal enjoyments vanish as a shadow! may your ill-gotten wealth leave you without a resource; and may you yourself remain alone and deserted, to learn the vanity of these things, which ...”
“As the Mississippi snaked and their old home slipped further away, perhaps Samuel had finally left the curse behind.”
“That he will haunt the footsteps of his enemy after death is the one revenge which a dying man can promise himself; and if men had power thus to avenge themselves the earth would be peopled with ph...”
