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“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”
“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”
“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”
“I wanted to cry but I didn't, I probably should have cried, I should have drowned us there in the room ending our suffering.”
“So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time...”
“Is that all?" she whispered.Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is.”
“I pulled myself from his mind, day by day, piece by piece, memory by memory, until there was nothing of Ruby left to weigh him down or keep him bound to my side..”
“Leave the pain behind and let your life be your own again. There is a place where all time is now, and the choices are simple and always your own.Wolves have no kings”
“I always knew this story would break my heart”
“Grace: Outside, deep in the woods, I heard a long keening wail, and then another, as the wolves began to howl. More voices pitched in, some low and mournful, others high and short, an eerie and bea...”
“I'd been making desicions for days.I picked out the dress Bailey would wear forever-a black slinky one- innapropriate- that she loved.I chose a sweater to go over it, earrings, bracelet, necklace, ...”
“It's much easier not to know things sometimes.”
“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human suffering, it teaches us nothing, leads us nowhere, and generally devalues us in our own eyes and the eyes of others.”
“2AM where do i begin,Crying off my face again,The silent sound of lonliness,Wants to follow me to bed”
“Had I known but yesterday what I know today,Id have taken out your two gray eyesAnd put in eyes of clay;And had I known but yesterday youd be no more my ownId have taken out your heart of fleshAnd ...”
“That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.”
“So don't fall in love, there's just too much to lose; if you're given the chance then I'm begging you choose to walk away, walk away, don't let it get you. I can't bear to see the same thing happen...”
“And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant,...”
“It is far more painful to awake from a beautiful slumber and in that brief period when the continuity of life is still lost to you to reach across the bed for a hand that is not there.”
“Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her mentor, "It shouldn't be like this." Her mentor repl...”
