To everyone whose inner child never stopped believing in fairytales — this one's for you.
“Darkness doesn’t need to be destroyed. We need the dark as much as we need light. It makes us bold, as much as it makes us afraid.” She smiled. “Darkness needs only to be tamed.”
― We Free the Stars
― We Free the Stars
“Knowledge without action is vanity, but action without knowledge is insanity.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“You'll have me. No matter how thick the night, I will always be there to light your way.”
― We Free the Stars
― We Free the Stars
“Love is for children, said the girl.
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― We Hunt the Flame
Death is for fools, said the shadow.
Darkness is my destiny, said the boy.
Allegiance is my undoing, said the eagle.
Suffering is our fate, said the beauty.
And they were all horribly wrong.”
― We Hunt the Flame
“Carnival food,” he said, “has this strange property. Each bite you take tastes increasingly artificial, oily, and overly sweet. Until you get done, and (lowly) wonder why you ate all of that. It’s truly magnificent.”
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
― Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
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