“Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.”
“Cormac and I have an understanding."
Erik raises an eyebrow. Clearly he's got the wrong idea.
"Don't worry. It's a death-threat thing.”
“Miss me?" he asks.
"It hasn't been that long," I remind him.
"I'm sure it's felt like a lifetime," he says, running his eyes down me. "Adelice, you are looking... malnourished."
"Cormac, you're looking overdressed.”
“You're at my table," Cormac whispers in my ear.
"My dream come true," I reply.
"I'm sorry?" he says in a voice that dares me to repeat myself.
"I said, lead the way.”
“So first of all, I'm sorry for leaving you. I wish I could prove to you that I fought to stay.
...
And finally Adelice, don't be sad for me. I'm free, and it is my sincerest wish that you will be as well.”
“I asked once why we kept it if it was useless, and she told me that remembering the past is never useless.”
“Jost's lips crush into mine, and I reach out without thinking and pull him closer against me. My hand tangles in his hair, and the web shimmers around us. The rest of the world is perfectly still, but we are in motion, crumbling into one another.”
“Cormac's eyes eyes narrow. "She wasn't half the Spinster you are, Adelice."
"I'm half the person she was," I say with a shrug, barely keeping my voice steady. "So I guess it evens out.”
“...that no matter how good their intentions, with absolute power comes corruption.”
“Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.”
― Gennifer Albin, Crewel”
“I knew we could never hide how special you are," he murmured against my hair.”
“..., pero la idea de no regresar jamás a mi casa pesaba más que la posibilidad de viajar.”
“Una vez quise saber porque lo conservábamos si era inútil, y ella respondió que recordar el pasado nunca es inútil.”
“Cuando eres incapaz de tomar una decisión complicada por el bien de los demás, pones en peligro a todo el mundo.”
“Mantener el aspecto adecuado ha dejado de resultar glamuroso, ...”
“Sé por experiencia que algunos secretos deben permanecer ocultos, incluso de las personas con la mejor de las intenciones.”
“Mis recuerdos son vívidos, pero borrosos en los extremos, como si empezaran a desvanecerse.”
“Mientras duermo borro y reconstruyo el mundo, y por la mañana trato de recordar cómo reconstruirme a mí misma.”
“Algunos datos carecen de sentido para nosotros porque hemos perdido el conocimiento correspondiente y con él las palabras y la realidad que describen.”
“... las mentiras siempre sirven al propósito de alguien.”
“Que haya normas contra algo no implica que desaparezca.”
“¿Cómo cierras los ojos una vez que los has abierto?”
“No sobrestimes tu culpabilidad. La muerte es el único escape que tenemos.”
“-Algunas cosas no deberían olvidarse.
-Los recuerdos nunca son inútiles.”
“-Supongo que la venganza [para algunos] es más importante que la vida de una persona.
-Tampoco pases por alto el poder que tienen las obsesiones.”
“¿Es la desesperación callada el precio de la felicidad superficial?”
“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
“Oh, we'll fuck Sienna. Believe me, it's been bound to happen since I first laid eyes on you. But this time it's going to be because you beg me. Not the other way around. And when you do, it'll be because you're ready to to completely give yourself to me.”
“Because I’m in love with you. Because I love my life with you in it. Because a world where someone as special as you lives, can’t be the horrible place I once thought it was.”
“A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one—it's too much!”
“It’s the only way to know you’re really in love, when you ask the question would it be harder to watch him die, or to know he’ll watch me die? Is there more mercy in being the one who does the watching or in being the one who does the dying? It’s when you realize what mercy-killing actually means, it’s when you actually care to the point of tormenting worry. It’s not roses and white horses, it’s fucking brutal and it can send a person running for the hills. To love is brave.”
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