“She had tried to imagine him as a young Gladiator in the arena. Back then he must have been as dangerous as a lean, half-starved alley cat. Now, the alley cat had long since vanished. What stood in his stead was a scarred and even more deadly lion who carried the weight of having lived for many years in his prime.”
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“I can't mate with you and hope to live.”
“If you set out to be the best version of yourself, there's no way you can go wrong.”
“The dreams beneath my horizon stay untouched by the light now.”
“Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.”
“He is a hero. Not a big, important hero. But there are many kinds of heroes.”
“Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.”