This is how the fire starts. This is how we burn.
("A Great and Terrible Beauty")
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Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.Libba Bray
I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details, the crucial heart, and you can damn someone with the bare bones of it.
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Felicity ignores us. She walks out to them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess. I don't know yet what power feels like. But this is surely what it looks like, and I think I'm beginning to understand why those ancient women had to hide in caves. Why our parents and suitors want us to behave properly and predictably. It's not that they want to protect us; it's that they fear us.
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Sheep. I'm stuck in a boarding school filled with sheep.
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It's possible to pretend I'm someone other than who I am, and if I pretend long enough, I can believe it.
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I will tell you the story of how we found ourselves in a realm where dreams are formed, destiny is chosen, and magic is as real as a handprint in the snow.
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