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“...he has so much he wants to tell the boy, but most important, maybe, is this: life makes monsters of everyone, but it's always possible to come back. Pain and death are real, but so are love, and family, and forgiveness.”
― A Cosmology of Monsters
― A Cosmology of Monsters
“Were we women so frail in the wake of men who swore they cherished us? Was a lover's betrayal more lethal than betrayal of oneself?”
― Desdemona
― Desdemona
“What can a woman do when scandalous gossip travels the world? If she defends herself, she sounds guilty. So I waited some more.”
― The Penelopiad
― The Penelopiad
“Spiritual but not religious,” Zachary clarifies. He doesn’t say what he is thinking, which is that his church is held-breath story listening and late-night-concert ear-ringing rapture and perfect-boss fight-button pressing. That his religion is buried in the silence of freshly fallen snow, in a carefully crafted cocktail, in between the pages of a book somewhere after the beginning but before the ending.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“But - if you're an in-between sort of creature with no family and no money, with nothing but your own two legs and a silver coin - sometimes running away is the only thing you can do.
And anyway, if I hadn't been the kind of girl who ran away, I wouldn't have found the blue Door. And there wouldn't be much of a story to tell.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
And anyway, if I hadn't been the kind of girl who ran away, I wouldn't have found the blue Door. And there wouldn't be much of a story to tell.”
― The Ten Thousand Doors of January
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