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“We try to avoid meeting one another, although we are moving around in search of one another.”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
“For a while I was looking for a person but I didn't find them and after that I was looking for myself. Now that I've found me I'm back to exploring, which is what I was doing in the first place before I was doing anything else and I think I was supposed to be exploring all along.”
― The Starless Sea
― The Starless Sea
“The dead have no compassion for the living.”
― Washington Black
― Washington Black
“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
“The king ordered that the saint be placed in the olive press until his flesh was torn to pieces and he died. They then threw him out of the city, but the Lord Jesus gathered the pieces together and brought him back to life, and he went back into the city. —The Story of St. George, the Great Martyr”
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
― Frankenstein in Baghdad
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