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“An act of mercy that I regret—endlessly, I regret it. I had a tutor once who wanted me to believe that mercy is a kind of sorrow and that since evil is the motive of sorrow, evil is also the motive of mercy. I thought that my tutor was old and cruel, and maybe he was—but now I think he was also right.”
“Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of things long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.”
“Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die.”
When life is woe, And hope is dumb, The World says, “Go!” The Grave says, “Come!” —Arthur Guiterman
“Oh, they do, kid,” said Ms. Baez. “They eat one another. They eat us. They eat every damn thing. They’ll drink up the whole world if we let them.”
beautiful dead, la belle mort.
“I won’t always obey you,” he said softly. “One night you will ask me for something I cannot give.”
danse du ventre,
Lucien plunged on. “Because the villain knows that without the hero to hate, his life would be empty. Once he’s murdered his adversary, he’s alone.” “So you’re the hero?” Gavriel asked. “Every hero is the villain of his own story, wouldn’t you say?”
“Isn’t every hero aware of all the terrible reasons they did those good deeds? Aware of every mistake they ever made and how good people got hurt because of their decisions? Don’t they recall the moments they weren’t heroic at all? The moments where their heroism led to more deaths than deliberate villainy ever could?”
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. —Leonardo da Vinci
“Tana. In all my long life, though there were many times I prayed for it, no one has ever saved me. No one but you.”
We all wind up drawn to what we’re afraid of, drawn to try to find a way to make ourselves safe from a thing by crawling inside of it, by loving it, by becoming it.
