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“You think in the same way men drink, Tea,” my father once said, “far too much—under the delusion it is too little.”
“Hearts only last when you put in work to make them last,”
“Sometimes you can’t help who you love or for how long.”
There are only two types of people you cannot raise from the dead: those with silver heartsglass like ours and those who are not willing. And your brother is very willing.”
“You can’t make the better of the dead, sweet child,” she said, “though I reckon death could make the better of us.”
“Sometimes it is good to remind ourselves how bitterness tastes.”
Asha also means ‘truth,’ and truth is the only weapon you need.
“Then perhaps we should carve a world one day where the strength lies in who you are rather than in what they expect you to be.”
To make a heart, you need memories.
Breeding isn’t what you were born as; breeding is what you grow to be.
“Everyone is believed to have two faces—one they show to the public and one they wear in private. The first face is their shaxsiat, or their honor. The second face is their ehteram, their dignity.
