Losing her standing in society had done nothing to steal the temperament she’d earned with it.
“There was nothing more respectable and dangerous than a woman of confidence.”
― We Hunt the Flame
― We Hunt the Flame
“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
“There is a certain beauty in chaos, magnificence in the uncontrollable.”
― 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
“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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