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They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you”
― The Count of Monte Cristo
― The Count of Monte Cristo
“Perhaps it is our lot—to never have the fathers we wish, but to still hope they might surpass what they are, flaws and all.”
― Kingdom of Ash
― Kingdom of Ash
“But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.”
― Circe
― Circe
“None will ever be a true Parisian who has not learned to wear a mask of gaiety over his sorrows and one of sadness, boredom or indifference over his inward joy.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
“They played at hearts as other children might play at ball; only, as it was really their two hearts that they flung to and fro, they had to be very, very handy to catch them, each time, without hurting them.”
― The Phantom of the Opera
― The Phantom of the Opera
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