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Princess Ben
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“And have your mother put my head on a stake? Do you have any notion what that would do to my handsome good looks?”
“What is it like?"
"What is what like?"
"Death. What is death like?"
"He is quiet and still, and oh, so peaceful. Fear will no longer hold any sway over you, nor will worry or sadness. Can you think of a time when you were especially tired? Perhaps after a long day of travel? Do you remember how lovely it was to climb into your feather bed that night? How grateful your tired limbs were? How welcoming it felt? How delicious to close your eyes and finally rest?"
"Yes."
"It is just like that.”
― Mortal Heart
"What is what like?"
"Death. What is death like?"
"He is quiet and still, and oh, so peaceful. Fear will no longer hold any sway over you, nor will worry or sadness. Can you think of a time when you were especially tired? Perhaps after a long day of travel? Do you remember how lovely it was to climb into your feather bed that night? How grateful your tired limbs were? How welcoming it felt? How delicious to close your eyes and finally rest?"
"Yes."
"It is just like that.”
― Mortal Heart
“I am sorry. I did not see you. Normally you are lurking in the corners or skulking in the shadows, not standing in plain sight."
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.”
― Mortal Heart
"I never skulk, and lurk only sometimes.”
― Mortal Heart
“She was so stupid. Such a stupid, stupid girl.
For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.”
― Fairest
For ever thinking she could be admired, adored, or noticed. For every thinking she could be anything at all.”
― Fairest
“Did you just propose on a napkin with a ring you stuffed in a guy’s eye hole?”
― Butcher & Blackbird
― Butcher & Blackbird
“We are all stars; we all fail and fall, no doubt. But from that failier should shine a new glow.”
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