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"That sense of loss is exactly what we must anticipate, prepare for, and cherish to the last of our days; for it is only our heartbreak that finally refutes all that is ephemeral in love."

"If patience wasn’t so easily tested, then it would hardly be a virtue."

"By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration, but our reconsideration—and our unwavering determination to withhold our opinion until we have engaged with them in every possible setting at every possible hour."

"In her first weeks, the building had grown to encompass the life of two city blocks. In her first months, it had grown to encompass half of Moscow. If she lived in the hotel long enough, it would encompass all of Russia."

"In her first weeks, the building had grown to encompass the life of two city blocks. In her first months, it had grown to encompass half of Moscow. If she lived in the hotel long enough, it would encompass all of Russia."

"History has shown charm to be the final ambition of the leisure class."

"Bloody Anne was my best friend and it was low of me to manipulate her like that, I knew, but sometimes when you lead you have to do things you might not be proud of."

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

"Youth is very cruel - to the old people."

"They saw me into my carriage and left cigarettes and magazines the way visitors leave flowers in a sick room."

When a person dies, he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past…All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

He who controls the past controls the future.
He who controls the present controls the past.

“What’s more precious than our memories?” he asks. “They define us and form our identities.”

'You Americans are fond of our traditions, aren't you? My da used to say that's because you've got none of your own.'

The people who have given all their love to God are so fucking annoying!

"Prime numbers have become secrecy's best friends."

"But nothing lasts forever, perhaps not even a love for Millenium."

"Choosing to live is an act of defiance, a form of heroism."

"Death alone persists in this place."

"Who needs trees when you have a Tätowierer to hang from?"

"Every battle has a cost, Freecloud had told her once. Even the ones we win."

"She might have made a magnificent bard, some claimed, had the world not made her a killer instead."

"Everyone suffers. We’ve all lost people we love, and it’s not always—or ever—fair. But only a monster paints everyone with the same bloody brush."

"Glory fades. Gold slips through our fingers like water, or sand. Love is the only thing worth fighting for."

“But it wasn’t him that hewed old Blackheart down. ’Twas that evil bastard, Slowhand.”

"The man spoke with the shrill arrogance of a castrated king." 🤣

"You’re a legend now, girl, and legends are like rolling stones: Once they get going, it’s best to stay out of their way.”

"Hindsight is a maddening plague on the mind."

"I wasn’t exactly a big fish in a little pond, more like a fat minnow covered in huge and venomous spines that you would do well not to aggravate."

"Gold and silver are the greatest lubricants known to man."