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• It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later…
• To know what a person has done, and to know who a person is, are very different things.
• As though prayer could simply pluck sin out. But any woman knows that a thread, once woven, is fixed in place; the…
• Memories shift like loose snow in a wind, or are a chorale of ghosts all talking over one another. There is only…
• The treachery of a friend is worse than that of a foe.
• I preferred to read than talk with the others.
• I don't want to be remembered, I want to be here!
• A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your…
• I have made a mistake. They condemn me to death and I ask for a boy to coach me for it. A…
• ...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on…
• Cruel birds, ravens, but wise. And creatures should be loved for their wisdom if they cannot be loved for kindness.
• Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

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