And if she is too long and lean, too wild to be considered comely, the strangeness of her hair has made her something even better. Striking.
“She closed her eyes, and her sigh of pleasure made him wonder, for the first time in many years, if God was real and testing him.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“Could she not even have the promise of love? Why could this belong to the women in ballads, to poets and playwrights, but never to her?”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“I never told you I couldn’t read.” “You let me believe it.” “It’s good to let a man have his illusions,” Luzia said.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“Fear nothing, and you will become greater than them all.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“I still meet grief in sudden places, when I least expect it. A familiar song. A smell from the kitchen. Then there it is. An enemy that can’t be bested.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
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