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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.

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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.

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For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.

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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.

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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

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Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.

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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

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No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back.

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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

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The storm ate up September's cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.

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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

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That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.

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Don't worry, Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

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Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.

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