“Blue,” he warned, but his voice was chaotic. This close, his throat was scented with mint and wool sweater and vinyl car seat, and Gansey, just Gansey.
She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
She said, “I just want to pretend. I want to pretend that I could.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“Your soul sings to mine. My soul is yours, and it always will be, in any world.”
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
― Daughter of Smoke & Bone
“Humans were so circular; they lived the same slow cycles of joy and misery over and over, never learning. Every lesson in the universe had to be taught billions of times, and it never stuck.
Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
Maybe it was good that the world forgot every lesson, every good and bad memory, every triumph and failure, all of it dying with each generation. Perhaps this cultural amnesia spared them all. Perhaps if they remembered everything, hope would die instead.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“How arrogant we are, Adam thought, to deliver babies who can't walk or talk or feed themselves. How sure we are that nothing will destroy them before they can take care of themselves. How fragile they were, how easily abandoned and neglected and beaten and hated. Prey animals were born afraid.”
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
― Blue Lily, Lily Blue
“The goddess of assassins has tasted my blood, he thought, and he wondered if she liked it, and wanted more.”
― Days of Blood & Starlight
― Days of Blood & Starlight
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