He always wanted to know what she was turning into while she was gone.
“There was pleasure in this sadness. It was the feeling of remembering great happiness you will never have again, the first flush of desire you know will never be consummated but that you can't help but hope for anyway, the desperate longing to see your beloved even when you know you are not loved in return.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“There is a fine line between a saint and a witch, and I wonder if you are prepared to walk it.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
“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
“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
“I was sick because this life has made me so. Because it drains me and bores me, but I still cling to it as a child to his mother’s hand. After all these years of sorrow, I want to live.”
― The Familiar
― The Familiar
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