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“What separates angels from ghosts is beauty. To be haunted is to be cared for in reverse. To feel so loved by an absence that you fear it.”

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“It was a time in her life when she would seek out mirrors whenever she cried, finding comfort in being a witness to her own grief. A time from which every memory has a strange timeless lucidity.”

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“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,' Chiron said. 'And perhaps it is a greater grief, after all, to be left on earth, when another is gone. Do you think?' 'Perhaps,' Achilles admitted.”

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