The Mask of Mirrors (Rook & Rose, #1)
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Read between March 18 - March 28, 2022
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My grandfather—yours too, I suppose—he used to say, revenge will make you whole. The way Grey’s been behaving… I’m afraid it will break him.”
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“This is your past, the good and the ill of it, and that which is neither.”
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But he knew her through the makeup, and she knew him through the scars.
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Would he ever get used to it—feeling like he was being gutted from the inside? Would it ever go away?
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“I have my compass, my edge, my chalk, myself. I need nothing more to know the cosmos.”
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Men had often looked at her the way Vargo was looking at her now, but always for her beauty—never her ingenuity.
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She could easily have pulled away, but there was warmth in his touch, in his eyes, and she was tired of being cold.
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Vargo didn’t often live in his body. He’d grown up thinking bodies were for pain—inflicting, receiving—a belief that lingered even though pain was rarely a concern for him anymore.
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Labyrinth’s Heart was the stillness of the eye of the storm.
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“We don’t kill,” the Rook whispered to the oblivious city. “But we can destroy.”
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“Trust is the thread that binds us… and the rope that hangs us.”