“A woman's beauty is in her strength and her passion.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“I wouldn't pick you as the kind of man who'd care to die nicely."
He leant forward, lacing his hands together. "How do you think I'd like to die?"
"In a blaze of ice and fury." He was from Pirenti, after all.
The corner of his mouth hitched up at that, but it was a humourless expression, one filled with chipped edges and painted regrets. "And you?" he asked. " How would you like to die, Avery of Kaya?"
I picked up the oars and started to row.
"I'm already dead, Ambrose.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“He smiled. And as I looked at the naked beauty of the expression, I fell in love with him.
It was that simple, that complicated.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“It's simple, being hurt. But it's complicated, loving someone.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“Who has ever loved as boldly as he does?”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“She was abstractly beautiful, as I had always wished to be, but I now found her ugly, understanding as I did now that real beauty simply came from happiness.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“And then I stopped thinking about Prince Ambrose of Pirenti, because he was destroying me.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“I keep asking myself why this happened," I told him softly. "How you and I could have possibly ended up here, together. I think I'm supposed to help you realise."
"Realise what?"
"The man you will be.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“And that was when I realised I wasn't the strongest man in the world after all. I was the weakest.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
“Forget dying. I suddenly wanted to inflict pain. My anger was a living, breathing thing controlling my body, making me shake. It was funny what a person with only half a soul could feel: no joy, no pleasure, no amusement, no longing or desire or fear – but they could feel anger, more keenly than if they were whole. Sharper than they ever had before they were destroyed – anger like it kept you alive, anger like air. I’d thought, many times, that it might have been only this anger that allowed me to survive at all.”
― Charlotte McConaghy, quote from Avery
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“Il vento si era spostato all'interno e aveva portato via con sé la pioggia; a mezzogiorno il sole aveva fatto capolino, il cielo si era fatto terso. L'aria era luminosa e frizzante di sale e questo conferiva alla passeggiata un gusto particolare; si riusciva a sentire il rumore del mare che si frangeva sugli scogli davanti alla baia. Capitava spesso, in autunno, di avere giornate così, che non appartenevano a giornate precise e avevano una freschezza tutta loro: nell'aria c'era già il brivido delle ore d'inverno, ma il profumo era ancora quello dell'estate.”
― Daphne du Maurier, quote from My Cousin Rachel
“But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”
― Terry Goodkind, quote from Confessor
“Comstock, "but I left a wrong impression with you. I don't want”
― Gene Stratton-Porter, quote from A Girl of the Limberlost
“I will be the silent protector Gotham Kayla needs”
― Sara Wolf, quote from Lovely Vicious
“I really do forget about everything. Because that’s what a moment like this does to you. It makes you feel like something so small inside of something so massive that it’s beyond comprehension. It strips away all of your problems, all of your hardships, all of your worldly needs and wants and desires, forcing you to realize just how insignificant all of it really is. It’s like the Earth becomes completely silent and still, and all that your mind can understand or feel is the vastness of the Universe and you gasp thinking about your place within it. Who needs psychiatrists? Who needs grief counselors and life coaches and motivational speakers? Fuck all that. Just stare at the night sky and let yourself get lost in it every now and then.”
― J.A. Redmerski, quote from The Edge of Always
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