“Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.”
― The Alchemist
― The Alchemist
“For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve—like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“Happiness. It was the place where passion, with all its dazzle and drumbeat, met something softer: homecoming and safety and pure sunbeam comfort. It was all those things, intertwined with the heat and the thrill, and it was as bright within her as a swallowed star.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
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