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“You deserve all that and more. It made me happy to see you suffer. I would do it all over again if I could." I realized I was shaking as the words tumbled out of me. "I would do it again and again. Every night I would torment you and laugh. Do you understand? You are never safe with me." I drew a shuddering breath, trying to will away the sting of tears.
He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. "That's what makes you my favorite." He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. "Every wicked bit of you.”
― Cruel Beauty
He opened his eyes and stared up at me as if I were the door out of Arcadia and back to the true sky. "That's what makes you my favorite." He reached up and wiped a tear off my cheek with his thumb. "Every wicked bit of you.”
― Cruel Beauty
“The moment we raised our eyes to the heavens is the very moment we became, if something less than angels, still something more than animal.”
― The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
― The Lady's Guide to Celestial Mechanics
“Dorothea was sand and sea, Miranda thought dizzily. She was wind and water and heat all at once, a tempest of her own making.”
― Miranda in Milan
― Miranda in Milan
“Where you go, I shall go; where you die, I shall die, and there will I be buried.”
― Cruel Beauty
― Cruel Beauty
“Are there any leading men in your life?"
"Several, but they're all fictional.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
"Several, but they're all fictional.”
― The Madwoman Upstairs
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