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She rose and smoothed her hair, which was as usual so extremely smooth that it seemed to be made of one piece with her head and covered with varnish.
“We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger. If people think that my danger makes them safe, we are in trouble.”
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“There is truth in stories,” said Arthur. “There is truth in one of your paintings, boy or in a sunset or a couplet from Homer. Fiction is truth, even if it is not a fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”
― Lord of Shadows
― Lord of Shadows
“Jules: Do you knwo why I'm sure? Because when this universe was born, when it blasted into existence in fire and glory, everything that would ever exist was created. Our souls are mad of that fire and glory, of the atoms of it, the fragments of stars. Everyone's are, but I believe ours, yours and mine, are made from the dust of the same star. That's why we've always been drawn to each other like magnets, all our lives. All the pieces of us belong together.
Your name, Ema, means universe, you know. Doesn't that prove I'm right?”
― Lord of Shadows
Your name, Ema, means universe, you know. Doesn't that prove I'm right?”
― Lord of Shadows
“I whisper your name, Ty. I whisper the most important thing:
I love you. I love you. I love you.
Livvy”
― Queen of Air and Darkness
I love you. I love you. I love you.
Livvy”
― Queen of Air and Darkness
“Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness...”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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