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She was an incomprehensible light in his darkness.
Romans 12:17 had been underlined: Do not repay anyone evil for evil.
“Curiosity often leads us down a precarious path.”
Remember when I said be audacious? Don’t let a man take away this dream. Do whatever the fuck you gotta do to keep it.”
“The truth is an intangible luxury of the powerful.”
“That is the tragedy of women, isn’t it? We deny ourselves beauty for the sake of misleading men.”
“The wealthy possess an insatiable appetite for the rare and priceless. They stare because you’re the only thing worth staring at.”
“You owe nothing to your family,” he said abrasively, as if I’d insulted him. “Passions are useless, if we pursue them for others. They become obligations. Undesirable.”
“The dead themselves are harmless. It’s what they leave behind that inspires fear.”
Love was also a sickness. An incurable disease. The kind that crawled inside the muscles and bones, and persisted long after death.
Mortui vivos docent. The dead teach the living.
