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“Your father, Oraya, felt all those things, too. He was just as broken as the rest of us, and he was so determined not to acknowledge it that he flayed you with those sharp edges and then berated you for having skin instead of steel.”
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“The darkness turns on Addie, then, and there is no vestige of Luc in the roiling smoke. There are no green eyes. No playful smirk. Nothing but a menacing void, a shadow filled with teeth. It has been a long time since Addie felt true fear. Sadness, she knows; loneliness and grief. But fear belongs to those with more to lose. And yet. Staring into that dark, Addie is afraid.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“He’d raised me to look at the bars of my cage and call them trees.”
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
― The Ashes & the Star-Cursed King
“Afraid she’ll forget herself as easily as others do, unaware that her mind is now a flawless cage, her memory a perfect trap.
She will never forget, though she'll wish she could.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
She will never forget, though she'll wish she could.”
― The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Uncertain, she popped out the first of her test cakes, sliced off a corner, and offered it to him. Fort picked it up between the sides of his hands. He inspected it. Sniffed it. Tried it. Then cried.
This type of response will send any artist into a panic. Tears wash away the middle ground - all the infinite permutations of mediocre are eliminated, and two options remain: one sublime, the other catastrophic. For a moment, both interpretations existed in a kind of quantum state for Tress. And people wonder why artists so often abuse drink.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
This type of response will send any artist into a panic. Tears wash away the middle ground - all the infinite permutations of mediocre are eliminated, and two options remain: one sublime, the other catastrophic. For a moment, both interpretations existed in a kind of quantum state for Tress. And people wonder why artists so often abuse drink.”
― Tress of the Emerald Sea
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