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“Perhaps what people said was true, that any man who lived long enough would eventually realize that the way in which he was cursed…

— Alice Hoffman

“John doesn't know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him. It is getting to…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“It was so damn strange, John thought, how sometimes the most unlikely, an ugly little man like this one, could hold such power. He…

— William R. Forstchen

“Sometimes I feel as if I'm cursed. A slow, hungry curse that has worked its way across my entire life, stripping me of everything…

— Morgan Rhodes

“Better this way, what remained of his battered sensibilities told him. He was no good for her, anyway. She didn’t understand him. She didn’t…

— V.S. Carnes

“Tomorrow, he told himself. Tomorrow he would face Weep, and his duty, and the nightmares that stalked him. Somehow, he would find the courage…

— Laini Taylor

“It must sound, I know, as if I had no pity for him; it wasn't true. I was angry because I was terrified. But…

— Jacqueline Carey

“And like that, the decades disappeared and the memory of that night came to life again. The way John had known it would. He…

— Karen Kingsbury

“The strangest kind of curse had been laid upon him: knowledge without hope of evidence.”

— David Wroblewski

“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.”

— Julie Anne Long

“Confounded, though immortal. But his doom, reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought both of lost happiness and lasting pain torments him.”

— John Milton

“he realized he had inspired a sense of trust and indebtedness that would make it entirely impossible for an honorable man to attempt to…

— Helen Simonson