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“Yet he knew things he would have preferred not to know. Things about men and the evil they do. Things so terrible as to make anyone's confidence waver, and contaminate anyone's heart forever. He looked at the people around him, people who lived without that burden of knowledge, and envied them.”
― Donato Carrisi, The Lost Girls of Rome

“Good always has a price, Marcus. Evil comes free.”
― Donato Carrisi, The Lost Girls of Rome

“Laia is curled in a ball on the other, one hand on her armlet, fast asleep.
"You are my temple", I murmur as I knee beside her. "You are my priest. You are my prayer. You are my release."- Elias”
― Sabaa Tahir, A Torch Against the Night

“Sometimes you need darkness to see things better:”
― Donato Carrisi, The Lost Girls of Rome