“I wore red on the night I slammed headfirst into my destiny”
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Extraordinary
“No, I’m going to find him. And I’m going to kill him. Before he can kill me.”
The Near Witch
“Everything seems different at night. Defined. Beyond the window, the world is full of shadows, all pressed together in harsh relief, somehow sharper than they ever were in daylight. Sounds seem sharper,too, at night. A whistle. A crack. A child’s whisper.”
Mirror Girls
“Because every time I accept that I’m worth less – less than a man, or a white person, or a gosh-darn oil baron – it punches a hole in my spirit. Punch enough holes and your spirit breaks.”
The Assassin’s Blade
“If you can learn to endure pain, you can survive anything. Some people learn to embrace it- to love it. Some endure it through drowning it in sorrow, or by making themselves forget. Others turn it into anger.”
As good as dead
“Her judgement day would come, but for now, Pip walked and she promised. That’s all. One foot in front of the other, even if she had to drag them, even when the hole in her heart felt too big to keep standing.”
A Winters Promise
“Going through the mirrors requires confronting yourself. You need guts, you know, to look yourself straight in the eyes, to see yourself as you are, to dive into your own reflection. Those who hide their faces, those who lie to themselves, those who see themselves better than they are, they will never be able. So believe me, it doesn’t run the sidewalks!”
Monster
“Hope is the best form of torture”
Good girl, bad blood
“What do you do when the things that are supposed to protect you, fail you like that”
Year of the reaper
“Loss is a part of life, my lord Cassiapeus, and grief is constant. It is unbearable at first. Then you find you can indeed bear it. Over and over again. As many times as necessary.”