“That's why this is important: because it's impossible.”
Source: Tess of the Road
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“There are never just two choices. That is a lie to keep you from thinking too deeply.”
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Shadow Scale
Source: Tess of the Road
“Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.”
Source: Shadow Scale
Source: Tess of the Road
“I was half lawyer; I always noticed the loopholes.”
Source: Seraphina
Source: Seraphina
“I think I've heard that ballad," I said. "It's beautiful but it ends sadly.”
Source: Seraphina
“It was hard to fool someone who could tell what you were thinking.”
Source: Seraphina
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
“Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?”
Source: Seraphina
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Seraphina
“The most useful virtues, for one who walked on, were flexibility and a willingness to improvise.”
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
“Only when we have carved you into pieces can you be whole again.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“His hair had clearly been up all night having adventures without him.”
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
Source: Tess of the Road
“The hated innocent becomes hateful. Goodness withers when it is continuously ground underfoot.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“Thou mayest reach Heaven only by the mercy of the fallen.”
Source: Tess of the Road
“I cannot perch among those who think that I am broken.”
Source: Seraphina
“Your lies didn't stop me loving you; your truth hasn't stopped me either.”
Source: Seraphina
Source: Seraphina
“I was drawn to his aloofness, the way cats gravitate toward people who’d rather avoid them.”
Source: Seraphina
“We were all monsters and bastards, and we were all beautiful.”
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”
“For future reference: do not underestimate the seductive power of math.”
Source: Seraphina
“The truth may not be told. Here is an acceptable lie.”
Source: Shadow Scale
“My own survival required me to counterbalance interesting with invisible.”
Source: Seraphina
“Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.”
Source: Seraphina
Source: Seraphina
“Metaphor is awkward, but emotion, by its nature, leaves you no more scalable approach.”
Source: Seraphina
“Did I become court composer through masterful procrastination? Hardly!”
“Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.”
Source: Shadow Scale