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Hundreds of years later, historians and scholars would look back upon this moment. This decision that, one day, would topple an empire. What a strange choice, they would whisper. Why would he do this? Why, indeed. After all, vampires know
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“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
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“I remember wishing the moment would hold forever; that we could be fixed there, laughing and irredescent... Then I got panicky because I knew it would pass; that it was passing already.”
― Painting Churches: A Play in Two Acts
― Painting Churches: A Play in Two Acts
“You think human nature is a beast, that it must be put in a cage. But it's the cage that makes the animal bad.”
― Rock 'n' Roll
― Rock 'n' Roll
“Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.”
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“She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding her own.”
― The Raven Boys
― The Raven Boys
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