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Hypocrisy isn’t complete until it’s also inconsistent.
“It hurts because we love him. That’s the balance of life, hard as it is to accept. A heart open to joy is a heart vulnerable to sorrow. There’s no family without loss, no love without pain.”
“Whatever else is taken from you, never lose hope. Even if you see how dark the world can be, choose to believe it could be better.”
Brass cages were scattered around the room. The first two were empty; squeaking from the third drew me close. I thought I’d find mice—instead I saw an albino bat dangling upside down by one claw.
They want to meet my favorite princess.
She’d been alive this whole time. I could have found her. Fucking hell, I could have found her.
“Every mark on you is something you survived to get back to me. You have never looked more beautiful.”
Whatever they’d thought in life, they must be happy for us now. If the dead feel anything, it’s the joy of the living. We must glow like lanterns to them, through the screen that separates us all.
Fulfillment is equal to the difficulty of the job. Those who never face something that could break them will never know the satisfaction of finding yourself whole and triumphant on the other side.
