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“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
“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
“But the world is strange and endings are not truly endings no matter how the stars might wish it so.”
― 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
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