I know it’s not easy for you, living this life, but try to remember, always try to remember, you’re not the only one with troubles.
Stars got tangled in her hair whenever she played in the sky.
Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.
For the way loneliness is worse when you return to it after a reprieve – like the soul’s version of putting on a wet bathing suit, clammy and miserable.
Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.
Like mold on books, grow myths on history.
With the infinite patience of one who has learned to live broken, he awaited her return.
Stop squandering yourself, child. Wait for love.
Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don’t have to be ashamed.
Nothing made you feel so useless as another person’s grief.
You have only to begin, Lir. Mercy breeds mercy as slaughter breeds slaughter. We can’t expect the world to be better than we make it.
Mercy, she had discovered, made mad alchemy: a drop of it could dilute a lake of hate.
Wasn’t that what religions did? Squint at one another and declare, ‘My unprovable belief is better than your unprovable belief. Suck it.
Was there any fate more bitter than to get what you long for most, when it’s too late?
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
Skip meeting him? The butterflies, the pounding heart, the blushing? The part where you enter each other’s magnetic fields for the first time, and it’s like invisble lines of energy are drawing you together-.
He actually listened, rather than pretending to listen while waiting a suitable interval before it was his time to talk again...
Once upon a time, the sky knew the weight of angel armies on the move, and the wind blew infernal with the fire of their wings.
There are other ways of showing someone you love them, such as fetching them out of Hell.
We haven’t been introduced. Not really.