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“Be brave,’ she says. ‘Be bold. Be loud. Never change for anyone but yourself. Any soul worth their star-stuff will take the whole package as is and however it grows. Don’t waste your time on anyone who doesn’t believe you when you tell them how you feel.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“We try to avoid meeting one another, although we are moving around in search of one another.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“Not all stories speak to all listeners, but all listeners can find a story that does, somewhere, sometime. In one form or another.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“Life holds a sanctity for them we can scarcely begin to imagine; it therefore struck them as absurd that someone would choose to end it.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
“The dead have no compassion for the living.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
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